IRCTC down: As Railway ticket booking portal faces outage, netizens roast it with memes

New Delhi: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the popular platform for booking Railway tickets is down, due to some technical glitch. This has inconvenienced thousands of train commuters who visit the portal for booking train tickets.

Many of them took to express their disappointment over the glitch taking town Railway’s portal while others mocked the Railways for not being able to manage a seamless portal.

The IRCTC portal is down for quite sometime now. It reportedly happened during Tatkal ticket booking time when thousands of commuters take to IRCTC portal to book their tickets.

Initially, the IRCTC was reluctant to accept the outage but when several users shared screenshots of error messages, it took note of this and acknowledged the problem. It also assured users that the portal will be back soon after fixing the technical glitch.

Several users got the following messages, when its services.

IRCTC site is down @IRCTCofficial
How’s your Tuesday? #IRCTC pic.twitter.com/6l7vbFGEJ6

— Anekanth Bahubali (@ButAaney) July 25, 2023

“Due to maintenance activity e-ticketing service is not available. Please try later. For cancellation/file TDR, please call at customer care no. 14646,0755-6610661 & 0755-4090600 OR MAIL AT [email protected].”

What’s strange is that the IRCTC officials are now suggesting users to use other platforms, rather than relying on its services. They reportedly asked users to use platforms like Amazon, MakeMyTrip, and other B2B players for booking train tickets.

This disorder in the IRCTC portal prompted users to share memes & jokes on the social media.

How memes mocked IRCTC

Everyone Trying to book a Tatkal Ticket #IRCTC

IRCTC Website & App: pic.twitter.com/R1JJj3fQbZ

— ɅMɅN DUВΞY ?? (@imAmanDubey) July 25, 2023

Whenever I want to book tickets on #IRCTC!

IRCTC: pic.twitter.com/jNIxfDAH3L

— Nikhil (@Risenik) July 25, 2023

After book tatkal ticket on IRCTC #IRCTC pic.twitter.com/pOB4dXMyAY

— dr__strange__ (@dr__strange__) July 25, 2023