People planning to travel by train this festive season, especially for the upcoming Chhath festival, took to social media on Saturday to complain about glitches on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism
Corporation (IRCTC) website.
The IRCTC is yet to issue an official statement but was replying to social media users tagging it on its X handles while raising the complaints.
Downdetector, a website that tracks and reports real-time outages and service disruptions for online platforms, apps and websites, saw close to 180 reports over disruptions on IRCTC around 10am today.
“Kindly raise your concern/complaint on https://equery.irctc.co.in/irctc_equery/ using registered mobile no /mail id,” IRCTC replied to a post in which a user raised issue with booking tickets, “Irctc website is down while ticket booking Sir.Plz do needful”, attaching a screenshot of the booking.
Sir, kindly raise your concern/complaint on https://t.co/Oiw5leQr8C using registered mobile no /mail id.
— IRCTC (@IRCTCofficial) October 25, 2025
A student possibly appearing for his exams also said that he was unable to do so because IRCTC servers were down.
“The IRCTC website is COMPLETELY DOWN just 1min before booking start for #Tatkal booking. Trying to book an AC ticket since last 3days for my exam. This happens every festive season. #IRCTCDown #TatkalBooking #FestiveTravel #IndianRailways,” X user @Pradeep63235513 said.
