Friends,
Summer vacations are going on. People are planning to go somewhere in India for outing. Someone use their own vehicle for this purpose or hire a vehicle and most of us go through Indian Raliways. If you are going by Rail then there may be some equiries regarding Seat availability, PNR Status, Train Status, Arrival and Departure Status and Fare enquiry. Now this has been made very easy. Indian Railways unique Customer Care and Enquiry Number 139 provides a host of information to its customers like PNR status, train arrival/departure timing, accommodation availability, train fare, online ticket booking etc. Customers need to simply dial 139 and after selection of language following prompts are available in the system:
- “Press 1 to know about PNR status of waiting list reserved ticket”
- “Press 2 for Arrival/Departure of train”
- “Press 3 for accommodation availability”
- “Press 4 to know about Fare enquiry”
- “Press 5 to book your ticket through cash card and getting it delivered through courier or email”
- “Press 6 to know the status of Mumbai Central Railway Suburban trains”
The details of SMSs services available and the format are as under:
Note: Quota is optional field. For example, please enter G for general, CK for tatkal
For CLASS field, please enter 1A for First AC, 2A for Second AC, 3A for third AC, SL for Sleeper, CC for AC Chair Car, 2S for Second Sitting. The service is also available on USSD for Reliance, Unicorn, Docomo and Vodafone Telephone Service Providers. Just dial *139# to avail the USSD facility for enquiry of PNR, Arrival/Departure etc.
The system is so devised that a Customer need not wait will the entire announcement fed in the IVRS is completed. Customer can skip the same by pressing the desired code (viz., can press 1 for PNR status, 2 for Arrival/Departure etc.) after selection of the preferred language. In case of three unsuccessful attempts, the call is automatically transferred to Customer Care Executive for his further assistance. In addition, one can send different SMS formats to 139 to get information on PNR status, train arrival/departure timing, accommodation availability, train fare enquiry and location of running train.
