Indian Railway Alert: With time, Indian Railways also makes many changes to provide comfort and convenience to the passengers. Now the passenger can easily book tickets online, book the seat of his choice, order food. Here we are telling you about such a service of Railways with the help of which you will be able to sleep comfortably without any worry during train travel.
There is always a fear of missing the station when traveling by train at night. But now you can take advantage of the destination alert facility of the railways and sleep peacefully. This feature will wake you up by sending an alert message on your mobile just before your station arrives so that you do not miss your station. This service of IRCTC is a great gift.
Receive wakeup calls and SMS 20 minutes earlier
On selecting this service, passengers will receive a wakeup call or SMS on the specified mobile number 20 minutes before reaching the station. Importantly, this service does not require internet access, but calls and SMS are charged. This facility is made available only for passengers of long route trains from 11 pm to 7 am.
This is how you can activate railway's destination alert service
- To activate the Destination Alert or Wakeup Alarm service you need to call IRCTC helpline number 139.
- Where you have to select your preferred language.
- After selecting the legnavigation option, you will have to provide the details of the destination. For this, first press 7 and then 2.
- After which a PNR number of 10 will be asked. After this you will have to confirm by pressing number 1.
- This way you can set a wakeup alarm.
- You have to pay only Rs 3 to start the Destination Alert Wakeup Alarm service.