Vacant chart: Thanks to IRCTC

Thanks to IRCTC, finding information about vacant train seats or berths has become a quick and hassle-free process, greatly enhancing the overall travel experience for millions of passengers in India. The days of chasing TTEs for vacant train berths will now be a thing of the past! IRCTC has recently taken the train reservations charts public. This move is aimed at making the Indian Railways system more transparent. This means that passengers will now be able to check train seat availability online on the IRCTC website or mobile app. Key features of the updates are as follows: IRCTC will display the entire train’s seating layout in different colours to shows seats that are booked ... Small tutorial on how to check vacancy details after chart preparation. India Rail Info is a Busy Junction for Travellers & Rail Enthusiasts. It also hosts a Centralized Database of Indian Railways Trains & Stations, and provides crowd-sourced IRCTC Train Enquiry Services. IRCTC defines chart vacancy as the number of available seats on a train after the final chart preparation. Introduced in early 2019, this current reservation feature enables passengers to view the coach layout of nine classes utilised in reserved trains.