The Indian Railways online ticketing platform, IRCTC, is current facing technical difficulties leading to outages, causing inconvenience to several users across the country. Numerous complaints flooded Twitter as customers reported that the IRCTC server was down during peak hours. The issues affected both the web-based booking system and the mobile app of the IRCTC.
In response to the situation, IRCTC issued a statement acknowledging the problem and attributing the service disruption to technical reasons. Their technical team is actively working on resolving the issue, and they have assured users that they will be promptly notified as soon as the problem is fixed.