Train
What are the Tatkal booking guidelines?
The Advance Reservation Period (ARP) of Tatkal scheme is reduced from two days to one day excluding the day of journey from the train originating station.
Maximum of four passengers per PNR can be booked on Tatkal e-tickets.
- The Ticket Reservation page appears; check whether the train name and station names, Date of journey, Class, Quota, Boarding Point etc. displayed on the top of the page are same as desired by you.
- Enter the name of passengers, age, sex and berth preference for each passenger. The maximum length of names should be restricted to 15 characters.
- Senior citizen concession is not allowed in Tatkal Quota.
- For Tatkal Non AC, bookings open at IRCTC at 11 am, they allow Paytm to take bookings from 11:30 am.
- For Tatkal AC, bookings open at IRCTC at 10 am, they allow Paytm to take bookings from 10:30 am.
For more details, you can also refer to http://contents.irctc.co.in/en/TatkalBooking.html