Overview
- Aadhaar OTP is live for online Tatkal bookings in 322 trains, with counter-based verification operational in 211 trains as of December 4.
- Confirmed-ticket availability time has risen about 65% on the trains using online OTP verification.
- Availability times have improved in nearly 95% of the 96 most popular trains, according to a written reply in the Lok Sabha.
- Since January 2025, about 3.02 crore suspicious user IDs have been deactivated following a mass revalidation drive.
- Railways has deployed Akamai anti-bot tools, strengthened the ticketing platform with multilayer cybersecurity, and referred suspicious PNRs to the National Cyber Crime Portal with continuous monitoring by CERT-In and NCIIPC.