Desk. IRCTC website has come to a standstill for the next one hour. Due to this, booking of railway tickets is not possible. Due to this, passengers are facing problems. The biggest thing is that the IRCTC site came to a standstill at the time of Tatkal ticket booking itself.
IRCTC issued a statement saying that maintenance work is going on at the site, hence there will be no booking for the next 1 hour. After the service of the website is down, those booking Tatkal tickets are facing a lot of trouble. People are expressing their displeasure on social media. People are asking many types of questions by tagging IRCTC.
It is being said that usually the website maintenance work of IRCTC is done after 11 o’clock but today it was done early before that. People are talking about cyber attack because AC Tatkal ticket booking starts from 10 o’clock while non-AC ticket booking starts from 11 o’clock. Due to IRCTC service being down, booking of both is not possible. Passengers are worried. Expressing their problems on X.
The website is already down today at 10 am and till now only maintenance message is being received when visiting the site. There has been no statement yet from Railways or IRCTC as to why the website is down. Tatkal ticket booking takes place between 10-11 am. There is a problem in both IRCTC app and mobile. Users are also not able to open the app, while after opening the site, they are getting maintenance message.