IRCTC Confirm Ticket Booking: Holi and Diwali are such big festivals in our country, when people working in other cities want to go to their homes. For this they choose Indian Railways as their preferred mode of travel. It is obvious that in such a situation the crowd increases and everyone faces difficulty in getting tickets. If you also want to go home on Holi and want to book a train ticket for this, then we have brought some useful information for you-
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Through a feature of IRCTC, the chances of getting your ticket confirmed will increase up to seven times. For this, all you have to do is to select the option (VIKALP) while booking the ticket from the IRCTC website. Let us tell you that VIKALP does not guarantee that you will get a confirmed ticket. This scheme of Indian Railways is an effort to provide confirmed tickets to the passengers.
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What is VIKALP? How does it work?
If your ticket is showing as waiting on the IRCTC app or website, then you can choose the option to buy Tatkal ticket. Let us tell you that the Tatkal ticket booking window opens at 10 am a day before the date of journey. IRCTC will ask you about other trains of your choice. Seven trains can be selected in this. If VIKALP option is not available while booking train ticket, then you will get VIKALP ticket option even by going to booked ticket history. Here you will be able to choose the option scheme.
How to confirm waiting ticket in Holi special train using VIKALP?
Use of VIKALP at the time of ticket booking-
You have to go to IRCTC website or app and enter your travel information.
When you get the chance to choose a train, tick the box that says Use Option Scheme or Select Option
Now you will have the option to choose up to seven alternative trains of your choice.
Here you have to choose those trains in which seats are more likely to be available and which are almost similar to your itinerary.
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Use of VIKALP after ticket booking-
If you have not selected the option at the time of ticket booking, you can do this later also.
Go to IRCTC website and look for the booked ticket history section.
Enter your ticket details and receive it
On the ticket details page, you will see the option of select scheme, select it.
Now you have to select up to seven alternative trains of your choice, which may have seats available and which approximately matches your travel time.