Record 5.80 lakh e-ticket bookings for trains on single day

A record number of 5.80 lakh e-tickets were booked yesterday, surpassing the previous highest of 5.72 lakh on single day.
The earlier highest booking was on September 2, 2013, when the www.Irctc.Co.In booked 5.72 lakh e-tickets, a senior IRCTC official said today.
Generally, two to three passengers are booked on a single e-ticket on an average.
Currently, the site books more than 4.63 lakh tickets with an average of 9.47 lakh passengers daily as against 3.85 lakh tickets with 6.86 lakh passengers booked daily in 2013.
It marks a 20 per cent increase in the number of tickets and a 38 per cent increase in the number of passengers.

The daily transaction of tickets involves a business totalling about Rs 53 crore now against Rs 37 crore in 2013.
The upgradation of the site is underway to enhance the ticket booking capacity, the official said.
"Our aim is to increase the booking rate to more than 7,000 tickets per minute from its present rate of 2,000 tickets and ultimately to make the site capable of handling 1.2 lakh users at any point of time as compared to its existing capacity of 40,000 users," he added.