{"id":447008,"date":"2021-11-02T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=447008"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T03:50:40","slug":"irctcs-net-profit-rises-almost-five-fold-on-higher-ticketing-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/irctcs-net-profit-rises-almost-five-fold-on-higher-ticketing-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"IRCTC&#8217;s net profit rises almost five-fold on higher ticketing revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>lndian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) reported a near five-fold increase in net profit to Rs 154.83 crores in the second quarter of financial year 2021-22. This was on the back of higher profit under ticketing revenue that touched Rs 220.34 crore in the period under review from Rs 61.34 crore in the same period a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>IRCTC&#8217;s total comprehensive income during the quarter ending September 2020 was Rs 34.14 crore. <\/p>\n<p>A senior official said IRCTC was booking around 700,000 tickets a day during the pre-pandemic period. &#8220;This has now risen to around 1.3 million a day, so even if the Railway Ministry takes away half the revenue, IRCTC\u2019s bottom line will not change much,\u201d a senior official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lndian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) reported a near five-fold increase in net profit to Rs 154.83 crores in the second quarter of financial year 2021-22. This was on the back of higher profit under ticketing revenue that touched Rs 220.34 crore in the period under review from Rs 61.34 crore in the same period a year ago. IRCTC&#8217;s total comprehensive income during the quarter ending September 2020 was Rs 34.14 crore. A senior official said IRCTC was booking around 700,000 tickets a day during the pre-pandemic period. &#8220;This has now risen to around 1.3 million a day, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}