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IRCTC Ticket Booking: Train is the common man's ride. Every day crores of people travel by train. Indian Railways takes initiatives to make train travel easy and smooth. Railways has now taken a new initiative to make ticket booking easy. Under this facility, you will not need to type for tasks like booking, cancelling tickets, checking PNR status. You can book tickets just by speaking or calling, all this work will be done with the help of railway's virtual assistant AskDISHA.
The method of ticket booking will change
Now the method of booking train tickets will become easier. Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will allow people to book train tickets by speaking. Under the new facility, passengers will be able to book tickets by speaking or calling. Actually IRCTC, NPCI and Corover have started conversational voice payments service for UPI. The new facility of railways is integrated with the payment gateway. With the help of which people will get the facility of ticket booking and payment by using their voice or by typing their UPI ID or mobile number on the call. Under the new facility, passengers will not only be able to get information about ticket booking, cancellation, PNR status by speaking but will also be able to make payments.
How will the new system of IRCTC work?
This service of Railways is based on AI. Railways' AI will be through Virtual Assistant AskDisha. With its help, you can book and cancel your ticket by speaking. Whenever a mobile number is given, the conversational voice payment system automatically receives the UPI ID associated with it. On the voice command of the user, the payment request for the ticket will be initiated through his default UPI app. To make the payment secure and flexible, the user gets the facility to update his mobile number or UPI ID within the time limit. After the payment is completed, the ticket is booked. This system uses the API of the payment gateway to ensure a seamless and secure transaction process along with CoRover's voice enabled Bharat GPT. For this, you can use the chatbot on IRCTC's app and website.
Book tickets by voice, payment methods
This partnership also includes IRCTC. UPI, BharatPe powered conversational voice payments, has been integrated with IRCTC and its AI virtual assistant AskDISHA for Indian Railways. This technology will allow users to book tickets using just their voice. The entire process is extremely easy and fast. Apart from booking tickets, you can check PNR status, cancel tickets, get refunds, change boarding stations, check booking history and many more without any hassle.