There is good news for those booking rail tickets that a new website of IRCTC will be launched soon. People often face problems while booking tickets through IRCTC. Now after the complaint by the students in Jaipur, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav announced that the new website of IRCTC will be launched by July 15.
The Union Minister made this announcement during a conversation with students at Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur. A video, which soon went viral on social media, shows a student asking the minister, “Sir, please solve the captcha problem on IRCTC.”
‘Is a new website possible within 30 days?’
Subsequently, the Railway Minister called an official of the department and said, “All the students have demanded that there should be a new IRCTC website,” and he then asked the official whether it was possible to create such a website within 30 days. After this he told the students that a new website of IRCTC will be launched by 15th July, after this announcement the students thanked him and clapped loudly.
Apart from captcha while booking tickets, users have often faced issues like slow website operation, website crashes and outages during peak hours, sudden session termination and unwanted logouts. Apart from this, users also have to face payment failure after seat selection, login problems, frequent error messages and OTP related problems. Not only this, there have been many problems due to heavy traffic during Tatkal booking and bots, agents and incorrect access to the IRCTC website.
2.5 crore user IDs of IRCTC deactivated
However, last year itself the Central Government said that it has deactivated 2.5 crore user IDs.
At the event, Ashwini Vaishnav, who is also the Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, announced the setting up of an ‘Advanced Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications Lab’ at MNIT. This lab will be set up under the Electronics and ICT Academic Project of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and will focus on developing indigenous capabilities in Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), quantum computing simulation and quantum sensing hardware components.
Addressing students and faculty members, Union Minister Vaishnav said that while the current technological wave is driven by AI, the next big technological wave will be led by quantum technology. In his address, he also said that the work done under this project will be very important for the country. The lab will also do research in QKD, which officials said is important from the national security point of view.
Union Minister and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Energy, Rajasthan, Hiralal Nagar also inaugurated a “Makers Lab”. Besides, the Union Minister also announced the creation of an AI lab in MNIT. Vaishnav also announced that students of MNIT Jaipur will get access to Lam Research’s “Semiverse” platform.
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