ALLAHABAD: To check the activities of touts and ensure transparency in purchase of tickets, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is planning to make Aadhar card mandatory for user registration process for e-ticketing. It has also decided to hire standardization, testing and quality certification (STQC) for conducting the security audit of its next generation e-ticketing system (NGET).

IRCTC is planning to make Aadhar card mandatory for user registration process for e-ticketing. This will ensure that users registering on the IRCTC website are properly identified for their identity and address through the Aadhar card number verification.

Currently, the new user registration on the IRCTC internet ticketing site is done through verification of the customer’s phone number and email ID, by sending an OTP (one-time password).

It has also decided to ramp up its e-ticketing operations by conducting security audit through STQC.

As part of this, STQC will conduct the web application security and vulnerability assessment of servers and devices that are part of its e-ticketing operations hosted at the website of IRCTC.

STQC Directorate is attached with the department of electronics and information technology, government of India.

IRCTC spokesman Pradip Dutta said: “Security audit will help IRCTC to ensure that security vulnerabilities, if any, have been detected and addressed in its e-ticketing system and the web application and IT infrastructure devices are free from any glitches. Further, making Aadhar card mandatory for user registration process for e-ticketing is now in the planning stage.”

The introduction of NGET has enabled IRCTC to revamp its interface and add some more user-friendly features like fast login and better ticket booking environment. It is faster than the previous portal. Another feature is that user will automatically log out after every three minutes. Previously, the user used to get ‘session expired’ error. This feature has been added to minimize the surplus traffic on the website.



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