The website of the IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) was down on Saturday morning while travellers were trying to book tickets for the upcoming Chhat puja.
A number of social media users have shared their grievances online. While the IRCTC did not issue an official statement regarding the same, they did ask people who posted their grievances to contact them through their e-query email id.
At 9:55 am on Saturday morning, Downdetector reported 103 cases of IRCTC website outage, which went down to 14 at 1:55 pm. IRCTC outages in the last 24 hours.
Downdetector showed around 51% outage in the IRCTC app while 46% reports were about the website.
When one user pointed out the issue at 3:11 am on Saturday, the IRCTC had replied that the app and website were working fine.

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