11 mind blowing facts about IRCTC You may not know

Facts about IRCTC: 

• IRCTC's next generation E Ticketing system can book 7200 tickets per minute against the 2000 tickets per minute earlier.
• Nearly 42% of customers pay for IRCTC booking through Internet banking & 24% use Credit/Debit cards.
• IRCTC reportedly working in Cash on delivery model for Railway ticket in 1oo cities. 
• IRCTC was listed top in most searched term of the year 2014 by Google India.
• Around 1.2 Lakh people can use IRCTC site at one time.
• IRCTC booked 27 tickets on first day when it was introduced in 2002. Now  days IRCTC book average of 5 lakh tickets per day,
• IRCTC generated revenue of 15,000 crores last year which is higher than E Commerce giants like Flipkart & Amazon India revenue.
• Over 31 crore tickets are booked through IRCTC every year.
• IRCTC also provide I Ticket facility (like E Ticket) which means your ticket will be send by postal after booking through online.
• On March 1, 2013, IRCTC recorded highest booking count of 5.02 ticket booking in its life time.
• Over 1 million people checks PNR status daily in IRCTC site. 

Hope you enjoyed reading about mind blowing facts about IRCTC 

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