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With the aim of bridging the gap between demand and supply in e-ticketing category,  IRCTC spelt out its grand plan to book 7,200 e-tickets per minute in the current fiscal. Currently, the ticketing site of the IRCTC is able to handle about 1.2 lakh concurrent connections on web servers and can book about 2000 tickets per minute. In a detailed presentation of its upgrading, IRCTC Managing Director R K Tandon explained the action plan for capacity enhancement to the Railway Minister CP Joshiat a review meeting here. It would cost about Rs 100 crore to Railways for strengthening the ticketing site. A power point presentation was made before the Railway Minister about the plan to strengthen the website to enable it for booking 7200 tickets per minute, said a senior Railway Ministry official. Besides Joshi, Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal and CRIS Managing Director Sunil Kumar were also present. CRIS, the technical arm of railways, is involved in...

The final error of Wi-Fi on trains lies in the 'free' pudding. Is this a true viable project, or an attempt to show that India has arrived on the global stage? It has been nearly a week since both the Railway and Union Budgets have been out – with the general verdict being that while not disruptive, both Budgets were the best that could be done under trying circumstances. Both Budgets, however, were also very cleverly branded. Two images came through amidst the haze of numbers and book-balancing. One was that of modernization – a country trying to show that its rail system had indeed arrived on the global stage. The other was that of gender and social development – a country trying to do damage-control after a rape incident that reminded the world that India had not yet joined the 21st century. There are, however, a few items from the Budgets that appear contradictory— which is perfectly natural when one considers that painting a veneer of modernizatio...