Students can get 50% concession in Indian railways, however, this concession is applicable only for sleeper class (SL) and 2nd sitting (2S) class. The concession can be obtained by booking the ticket at the counter along with the concession form. If the student possesses an I-Ticket (booked through internet) then he can show the I-Ticket along with the concession form at the ticketing counter and get a fresh ticket issued and the concession amount will be electronically refunded by IRCTC to the student. Note: this is applicable only for I-Ticket and not an E-Ticket booked through the internet. Read the rest of this entry »

www.irctc.co.in is the site for booking railway tickets online. But most of the time this website is not working properly because of the high traffic it gets. But a simple trick will help you to book your tickets in two simple steps. Read on:

Step 1

Finding seat availability. First step of the booking is to find seat availability in a particular train on the date of travel. On www.irctc.co.in you need to do multiple availability searches to find the train which has available seats. But cleartrip.com has availability calendar where you just need to enter source, destination, class of travel and date range. It will give you back a list of trains and their availability status on different dates. Note down the train number of the train you want to travel in based on the availability. Read the rest of this entry »