Record booking of e-tickets on IRCTC website

The e-ticketing website of the IRCTC booked more than five lakh tickets on August 12, the highest-ever tickets booked in a single day.
"There has been a record booking of 5.04 lakh e-tickets yesterday," said a senior IRCTC official.
IRCTC, a subsidiary of railways, has invested about Rs 11 crores to strengthen and upgrade its ticketing website for facilitating booking of more tickets.
Earlier on March 1, this year the website had booked 5.02 lakh tickets.
The average daily booking was around 3.85 lakhs last year 2012-13, which has now become 4.30 lakhs daily.
IRCTC has also taken a slew of measures for smooth running of its system like blocking of agents during the initial two hours of booking from 8 AM to 10 AM and Tatkal ticket booking from 10 AM to 12 hrs respectively.

It has been done for preventing illegal booking through automated software by touts and thus making the system available only to the individual users during this period, which draws the maximum rush.
IRCTC is revamping its site by increasing the booking rate to 7,200 tickets per minute from its existing capacity of around 2,000 tickets and also augmenting the capacity to handle 1.2 lakh users at any point of time as compared to its existing 40,000 users.