After Indian Railways on Sunday evening announced its plans to resume its passenger train services in a limited manner and said that reservations can be made only via online booking reservation through its official IRCTC website or app from 4 pm today, the website saw heavy traffic and seems to be down for the time being. After 4 pm, when the site was supposed to function in order to book reservations, the users faced difficulty in either logging in or trying to reserve tickets.
One user who goes by the ID @itssumitjain, on Twitter shared,” IRCTC down from sharp 4 o clock. People are eager to go home really from railways at this #coronavirus time. Another user (@tauseef11) had a similar problem, and tweeted, ” Today 11th may 2020 at 4:16pm IRCTC website is slowed down … Could not book ticket.” Another person with the username @abhinavk tweeted, “And the @IRCTCofficial server has gone bonkers…After 53 days the bookings open and the server seems to have gone down.”
The Ministry of Railways addressed the problem and tweeted that the inconvenience was regretted. “Data pertaining to special trains is being fed in the IRCTC website. Train ticket bookings will be available in a short while. Please wait. Inconvenience is regretted.”
Indian Railways planned to gradually restart passenger train operations from 12th May, 2020, initially with 15 pairs of trains.