railway tickets can be booked 4 months in advance

Now railway tickets are available in Cash-on Delivery mode a new initiative by IRCTC...
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Delivering tickets at the consumer’s doorstep by offering the cash-on-delivery option will help consumers without Internet banking and credit cards to book tickets online without depending on travel agents. It will also help reduce traffic on the IRCTC website as the time taken per transaction will be cut, bringing down the high transaction failure rate on the website. Till March, the website witnessed a transaction failure rate of close to 30% because of poor Internet connectivity, long process of online payments, and inefficiencies in the system because of heavy traffic on the website. With the launch of the IRCTC’s next-generation e-ticketing system, which has raised the booking capacity to over 7,200 tickets per minute from the 2,000 tickets per minute earlier, the ticket-purchasing experience is expected to improve. “At present, we book around 10,000 tickets online per minute, which is beyond our expectations. When we launched this service, our target was to book 7,200 tickets per minute. With over 200,000 agents booking through IRCTC, we are gearing up for higher ticketing per minute,” Rajni Hasija, group general manager—information technology at IRCTC, said at the fifth Travel and Tourism Summit organized by The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).