Discussion Indian Railways Tatkal ticket booking to require e-Aadhaar authentication from 1 July 2025

[Bapun]

Indian Railways will soon start using e-Aadhaar authentication to book Tatkal tickets.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930292913579147360

 

[Lucifer_King]

Indian Railways will soon start using e-Aadhaar authentication to book Tatkal tickets.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930292913579147360

if 1 time auth only during login OR linking aadhar with ur irctc acc then its fine but if its another added step, its gonna be hell due to even more otp delays of aadhar auth during tatkal hours and from the tweet language, it seems like the later

 

[Nikhil Shirvankar]

I've used Swarail twice for Tatkal last week and once around 20 days ago, all for a Kokan journey, both time lucky, it is fast, used UPI once and UTS wallet twice, UPI payment, as expected was in loop after instant deduction, but ticket was booked, UTS wallet gave instant booking.
The same time IRCTC app/web struggles to even login

 

[Sparker0i]

if 1 time auth only during login OR linking aadhar with ur irctc acc then its fine but if its another added step, its gonna be hell due to even more otp delays of aadhar auth during tatkal hours and from the tweet language, it seems like the later

I think it might use the existing feature where we can already pre-add passenger list with Aadhar numbers. Just that now it will become eAadhar instead

 

[Shubham]

Indian Railways will soon start using e-Aadhaar authentication to book Tatkal tickets.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1930292913579147360

So all tickets will be sold out till we finish eaadhar authentication

 

[Siddarth27]

Only Aadhaar authenticated user can book Tatkal tickets on IRCTC Website and App from July 1

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2135694

 

[Rakesh M U]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932817942715957556

 

[hike]

I think it might use the existing feature where we can already pre-add passenger list with Aadhar numbers. Just that now it will become eAadhar instead

The list can only have limited passanger and during tatkal it can't be edited.

if its another added step, its gonna be hell due to even more otp delays of aadhar auth during tatkal hours and from the tweet language, it seems like the later

Another step is there although a good network and patience can book your ticket.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932817942715957556

 

[Lucifer_King]

The list can only have limited passanger and during tatkal it can't be edited.

Another step is there although a good network and patience can book your ticket.

Network is never an issue for most of us. The issue is server load whoch leads to unresponsive server. Same thing will happen to aadhar auth server too. Why couldn't they just rely on the aadhar linking of an irctc account os beyond my understanding. That would've been the perfect solution