IRCTC website goes down, users complain on X

New Delhi, Nov 23 : Website of the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Thursday suffered a technical glitch, causing a temporary pause to its e-ticketing services.

The outage left passengers stranded and frustrated, and they turned to X to went out their frustration.

"Don’t look for a man who earns 20LPA.Look for a man who can do Tatkal ticket booking on IRCTC in one go," a user said.

"IRCTC Website down since 2 hours Early morning hours too the situation was the same.When can we expect the site to be back running? @RailMinIndia @GMSRailway," another user wrote.

One more user mentioned: "This is how govt.app works which is promotes online transactions.

Try to book tatkal ticket and their app sucks when there 11 Am in the clock.Also leave but today tried 4 times and every time their payment gateway was showing this error.#IRCTC @RailMinIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw.

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Acknowledging the problem, IRCTC issued an update on X, saying: "E-ticket booking is temporarily affected due to technical reasons.Technical team is working on it and booking will made available soon".

In a following tweet, it added: "At 13:55 hrs, e-ticket booking has resumed."

Due to a technical problem, the e-ticket booking was halted for around three hours.

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