The crucial IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Corporation) website that is used by lakhs of Indians to book and reserve train tickets as well as for myriad other purposes for the mammoth Indian Railways went down on Saturday, January 11, 2025. This is the fourth time the service has malfunctioned in the past few weeks, throwing innumerable railway passengers into great inconvenience. Users have also posted complaints on social media platform X.
Downdetector, the site that monitors major outages, showed a sharp spike in the number of outages around 12 noon on January 11, 2025. Most of the problems reported were from users who were trying to buy tickets through the IRCTC app and website.
IRCTC outages in the recent past
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) app and website are encountering frequent outages. And strangely most of the problems are taking place in the peak ticket booking hours in the morning. The last incident of outage in IRCTC portal was on December 31, 2024. It was the third outage in December. The immediately preceding glitch was reported on the morning of December 26, 2024.
The crucial IRCTC website that is used by lakhs of Indians to book and reserve train tickets as well as for myriad other purposes for the mammoth Indian Railways. This is the fourth time the service has malfunctioned in the past few weeks. Biz News Business News – Personal Finance News, Share Market News, BSE/NSE News, Stock Exchange News Today
