Irctc PNR status of the Indian Railway is the small form for Passenger Name Record. It is a distinct ten digit number that is printed on the ticket at the top left corner. All those passengers who have reserved their accommodation and would like to know the status of their ticket, the PNR number needs to be cited while making the enquiry.
PNR number performs as the primary reference essentially and very helpful in searching and updating the status for reservation and confirmation of ticket. It provides as the database for Railway Reservation system in order to easily find out the confirmation status by mobile and landline phone.
PNR represents the Passenger Current Status and online PNR Status analysis is available between 0500 hrs to 2300 hrs IST. In order to propose faster service now onwards,
Indian Railways has resolute that PNR Status will be available only for those PNR’s for which date of journey lies within 10 days (inclusive of current day). Therefore, one needs to give the details of journey date along with the PNR number for accessing the current status.
Indian Railways has presented the facility of providing the Train PNR Status on your mobile phones. This has directed to immense relief and comfort for the passengers. To get the PNR Status over the mobile phone, one needs to type in 10 digit PNR number written on the ticket and send it via SMS to 9773300000.
Indian Railways has worked together with Google to execute this facility. By just messaging the PNR number, one gets the ticket’s current status together with all other journey details.
While sending the SMS to the number 9773300000, you should not prefix 0 or +91. Best part of this service is that one is required to pay the price of standard SMS only and no premium charge extracted from passengers.
The online PNR and seat availability queries are carried from the computerized reservation applications, which are open to public right from 08:00 hrs. IST to 20:00 hrs IST on weekdays and from 0800 hrs IST to 1400 hrs IST on SUNDAYS.
These online reservation applications are down daily around 2300 hrs IST and booted around 0500 IST hrs on weekdays. On SUNDAYS the shutdown is done before.
Indian Railways department has commenced a new phone number for Enquiry, which is a completely free service and works across India including small villages and towns.
You just need to call 139 from your BSNL landlines, MTNL landlines, Dolphin, Garuda, Idea, Spice Telecom and Vodaphone telecom operator and get access to SMS, call back and fax facility.