Now, IRCTC will predict your wait-listed tickets will get confirmed or not

The refurbished IRCTC website went live at midnight. Know the top 5 facts about the new site that will help commuters struggling to book train tickets

While you may not get confirmed berths each time you book a train ticket, you can find out if your ticket stands a chance of being confirmed thanks to a new predictive service on the IRCTC website, officials said on Monday. At midnight, the new and refurbished IRCTC website went live; and now, it will let Indian Railways passengers know the probability of confirmation of wait-listed tickets based on a new algorithm developed by the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). 

"According to the new feature of wait-list prediction, one can predict the chances of a wait-listed or a RAC ticket