What is the full form of IRCTC?

What is the full form of IRCTC?

The full form of IRCTC is Indian Railway Catering and tourism Corporation. Some important services provided by IRCTC are Online ticket booking, Tatkal train ticket booking, Hotel booking, Food booking during travel in trains, Flight booking and etc. The main service of IRCTC are Catering and e-ticket booking service. Now days peoples don't have time to stand in line in Railway stations and book tickets. So most of the people prefer to book their ticket through online IRCTC App or IRCTC website. The online ticket booking is the most popular service of IRCTC.

Services of IRCTC:

• Online tickets booking of trains.
• Online hotels booking. 
• Flight ticket booking.
• Tatkal train ticket booking. 
• You can check PNR status of train tickets.
• You can also check seat availability of trains.
• You order food during travel in trains. 

Objectives of IRCTC: 

Following points are the main objectives of IRCTC

• Provide a customer friendly function for ticket booking. 
• Make most effective use of resources and enhance manpower productivity.
• Advance and merge into most effective catering service.
• Develop business opportunity through public private joint venture.
• Expand high principles of business, Equity management and cost control procedure. 

IRCTC starts running private trains on 4th Oct 2019. Tejas Express is become the first private train. The country's first private train run by its subsidiary IRCTC, On Lucknow to New Delhi route.