Tatkal Booking To Get Seamless, e-Aadhaar Authentication Soon

New Delhi: Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has announced a new initiative aimed at easing tatkal bookings for passengers seeking confirmed berths. Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Vaishnaw revealed that the Railways will soon implement e-Aadhaar authentication for tatkal ticket bookings, ensuring genuine users have better access to confirmed tickets. 

"Bharatiya Railways will soon start using e-Aadhaar authentication to book Tatkal tickets. This will help genuine users get confirmed tickets during need," the Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw wrote in a post on X.

E-Aadhaar authentication to benefit genuine passengers 

The upcoming introduction of e-Aadhaar authentication for Tatkal ticket bookings aims to prevent misuse of IRCTC accounts and facilitate last-minute ticket reservations for genuine passengers.

This initiative is expected to improve the availability of Tatkal tickets. Passengers have frequently reported that when booking Tatkal tickets, the website initially displays availability. However, by the time they enter passenger details and complete payment, the ticket status often changes to waitlisted. The new system seeks to address this issue by streamlining the booking process and ensuring fair access to confirmed tickets.

The whole idea for proposing to introduce e-Aadhaar authentication for booking last-minute tatkal tickets is to make the entire process more transparent and prevent agents from bulk bookings using unfair means.

Railways one of the most preferred modes of transport for lakhs and crores of people in the country due to it being economical.

What is tatkal feature? 

Tatkal feature in Indian Railways is a very useful facility for people to book last-minute tickets. The feature gets active 24 hours prior to the journey. For AC berths, the booking starts at 10 AM, a day before journey and at 11 AM for sleeper class, 24 hours before the journey.