I have Serious Issues with Railway reservation portal. I wonder why The IT dept of Railways is Not able to keep the online reservation Service running ever since the inception. I wonder it has been 20 years of internet and e-commerce. India is making a mark as global software powerhouse. Still we are Not able to keep our Domestic IT infrastructure up and running.
Issues:
(1)Slow and Unresponsive, Application times out every now and then.
(2)Ticket booking ePayment fails every Third time.
(3)It takes half an hour to Book a single ticket while If I use makemytrip.com, yatra.com or any other portal for air tickets etc it takes 1-2 mins.
(4)its impossible to Search and Browse trains and plan journey on this portal.
(5)People can not book ticket for one hour everyday midnight and every now and then error comes That too many users on this site please try again later. (are u kidding me Gmail, yahoo even many indian site handle 100 thousand times more load then IRCTC still irctc only fails other sites have 99%+ uptime)
Simply Pathetic Service of Online reservation portal of IRCTC Railway Reservation Portal. I cant believe.
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To Whom it may concern.
Dear Sir,
I have issues with Uncovered Overloaded trucks and HGVs carrying Sand and other construction material and passing through the City (Delhi). When these trucks pass by they leave a long trail of Dust and miniscule particles in Air. Two wheeler riders and other pedestrians who inhale the air become susceptible to respiratory diseases. This dust eventually settles up along the corners of the road and lasts for long times. (that's why foreigners refer India as Dusty)
My brother has Serious Asthma every second day when he come back from office I see him taking inhaler and choking. Its so painful to have a feeling that someone is choking you and having a near death experience everyday.
Please Request you to do something about covering these vehicles from TOP.
There must be a law of covering these vehicle from top. In Mumbai when new buildings are developed they cover these buildings form around so that construction material does not get airborne.
We should bring such practices in Delhi as well. Delhi is already struggling with pollution from vehicular nano-particles.
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Advertisement free paper to save Trees:
As a daily Newsreader its so important to have a cup of tea and newspaper.
Every newspaper should have Ad Free option. [They can price it accordingly]
Many people will surely opt for it as they do not want advertisements like matrimonial and property ads.
They can also opt for certain segment of newspaper rather then taking entire paper like Page 3 gossip, Bollywood news etc.
Every Weekend in new Delhi the Newspaper comes bulky with 100-150 pages with only 28 pages of Real News.
Amazon Kindle, Apple IPAD which looks & feels like a Novel but surely can not replace Good Old newspaper which is so perfect in doing what is does "Gives News".
I am sure future in bright for our woods with semiconductor
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Public addressing Using Mobile Phone Caller Tunes (Ref.1)
Caller Tunes is when we call someone a ringing sound comes we can change that ringing sound for public interest messages. Propaganda circulation about Population, Alcohol abuse, Vaccination Health, Girl education and Public Rights.
It should be compulsory for Mobile operators to AIR these public service messages to Callers in Towns and Villages.
Not to mention (with 80 crore mobile subscribers) that in villages the Mukhiya of any house has one sure piece of technology which is His mobile phone and he has to make calls and if will hear every time these public service messages he is sure to send his daughter to school and think about family planning.
This is such a big unexploited media for public messages. Noticably AIR AM and FM radio is used to convey such messages but its has limited audience base.
One more thing is SMS public messages.
(1) A Caller Tunes Or Ringback Tone is an audible indication that is heard on the telephone line by the caller while the phone they called is available to accept calls. It is normally a repeated tone, designed to assure the calling party that the called party's line is ringing, although the ring-back tone may be out of sync with the ringing signal. (Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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