Nowadays Tatkal Ticket Booking has become very difficult from IRCTC as there are only a few seats and within a fraction of seconds the most of them are booked. To book an IRCTC Tatkal ticket you must be very quick. However, with some simple tricks, you can make it very easy.

The Tatkal ticket booking will start everyday at 10 A.M and people can book one day before to the journey date. You can book your ticket through only official website i.e; irctc.co.in. Below you can see few methods to fill the IRCTC form filling for booking the tickets quickly. Moreover, one can book only 2 tickets a day and maximum of 6 tickets from an account which is implemented from 15th February.

General waiting list (GNWL) is favored over tatkal waiting list (CKWL) at the time of chart preparation as per this Indian railway circular. Therefore, booking of the confirmed tatkal ticket is of utmost importance as waiting list Tatkal ticket has very fewer chances of confirmation and tatkal tickets do not go through RAC. Following tips will help you in booking confirm ticket in tatkal quota through IRCTC website.

IRCTC Tatkal Ticket Booking Tricks:

To book the train tickets tatkal here are some basic requirements.

• Firstly, you should have a fast internet connection so that you can book your tickets fast. However, slow internet connection may lead to the loss of tickets. Also, an IRCTC account. If you don’t have the account create one.
• Fill passenger details before 10 am for ac class and before 11 am for non-ac class, you need not fill them again and save a couple of minutes this way which increases your probability of getting confirmed tatkal ticket. This is how you should do so:
• Login into the IRCTC website 5-10 minutes ago and do these before 10 am for ac ticket and 11 am for the non-ac ticket.
• Select origin-destination, choose the date as today’s date and enter ticket type and click on ‘Find Trains’. Now select quota as TATKAL and click on BOOK NOW for today’s date for any train.
  Enter passenger details including id card details and mobile number (You can also save the Passenger name , age Id , phone no, payment details like card no etc in the note pad).
• By using some software plugins like Magic Auto Fill, User Agent Switcher, Adblock Plus etc. you can fill the details a bit faster.

Valid ID Proofs For IRCTC Ticket Booking:

In order to book a tatkal ticket, you must have valid ID proofs. Keep one of the Id card details of one of the passengers handy. This way you do not have to search for it after you have started the booking process.

• Voter Photo identity card
• Passport
• PAN Card
• Driving Licence
• Aadhar Card

Software Plugins For IRCTC Tatkal Ticket Booking:

Method 1: Auto Fill Extension

The Autofill extension serves one purpose: fill form fields automatically on page load without any interaction from the user. This is its primary function, but it can do so much more. Google Chrome has a built-in autofill feature, but it doesn’t work on all form fields and requires you to select from a drop-down menu.

Auto fill is a great option to save your time on entering the data using IRCTC Tatkal Booking. When someone choose auto fill option computer fills the details that are previously filled with the same user name. For this follow the simple steps given.

• Visit the official website to book Tatkal tickets myrailinfo.in
• Install the plugin to Google Chrome Browser.
• After installation of the plugin and open it.
• Fill all the required details like name, age, sex, birth preference etc.
• After the completion of data, filling click on “Save Form” button.
• Now login to IRCTC website and login to your account.
• You can proceed to select the desired trains and book the tickets.
• Click on the plugin to fill the details.
• Choose the payment options and confirm the tickets.

Method 2: Use Magic Autofill

• This is a tool that is found and developed by Amit Agarwal which is Magic Auto Fill tool. Let us what this tool is
• and how to use it.
• Go to the web page www.ctrlq.org/irctc/
• Fill all the reservation details of the Journey.
• Click on “I`m Feeling Lucky” button.
• Add this button to bookmarks by drag and drop option.
• Now you can visit the IRCTC site and click on the created bookmark to fill the details automatically.

Adblock Plus:

It helps to get page load faster by blocking ads. Few extensions like bookTatkal do this also If the extension you are using doesn’t block ads install this extension

For Payments (Successful and faster):-

Avoid payment option which requires OTP or takes you to too many pages while making payment. (Remember you have to be quickest at every step). There is an option on IRCTC payment page debit card with the pin, it is highly recommended that you use any of those bank’s debit card. ( SBI, BOI, HDFC, Indian Overseas, Axis, Canara, UBI, CBI are listed there)

Don’t go for wallets for payment if you are booking Tatkal there are chances they will take more time.

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