IRCTC News & Updates

[Sushubh]

https://broadband.forum/irctc-sell-general-products-deal-shop-online-trading-45510/
Train tickets to bache nahi jaati dhang se...

IRCTC, India's largest online transaction site, books nearly 37 % of about 31 crore rail tickets reserved every year. The state-owned organisation will now partner with Shop Online Trading, a subsidiary of online retail venture Yebhi to launch the online retail venture."Shop Online will handle IRCTC's retail backend operations," said Manmohan Agarwal, CEO of Big Shoe Bazaar India, which owns Yebhi. "At even conservative estimates, we expect sales of around Rs 200 crore from this partnership in the first year of operations."

http://www.readability.com/articles/yp9znwmp

 

[mhsabir]

Well, I guess Yebhi will take care of everything, Irctc's only real role is to try and divert some traffic that comes to its site to buy train tickets to buy this...

 

[Sushubh]

So, instead of making train tickets easier to book, they want to mess up experiences buying other products!

Dear Customer, We have not received refund of cancelled flights from King Fisher Airlines booked on IRCTC website. We are consistently pursuing the matter with the airlines, and refund would be processed as soon as possible.

https://goo.gl/pdc6n
LOL OK.
Few months down the line. Yebhi was unable to handle the orders processed through us. We are trying to get them to refund the money!

 

[mhsabir]

I see this as unrelated, they are just tapping the potential of visitors of their site, sort of like Google Ads but with more involvement in business and revenue. Ofcourse, I can see your point as well, if they are going to bring in messy ads & stuff during the booking process itself then it will be a big disaster .. for the consumers.

 

[Sushubh]

Exactly. Assuming they are a government body, it is insane that they are allowed to deliver such a poor experience in the name of generating revenues through advertisements everywhere on the website. What's next? PMO India website featuring ads to generate revenue for the Prime Minister's Relief Fund?

 

[mhsabir]

Well, if you are talking about ads, they are already on the site.

 

[Sushubh]

I am talking about existing user experience on the website. Yes.

 

[Navjot Singh]

And Irctc Shop is open. Free Shipping.

 

[SVK]

Name itself is "Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited", so when they said that they would be selling Train Tickets
(Somebody posted this on FB)

 

[Navjot Singh]

Yes. Its being run totally by Yehbhi.