Railway body has clarified that Adan🌼i group will not become its comp꧟etitor with its acquisition of online train booking and information platform 'Trainman', the reports said.
The Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which handles ticketing services for the Indian Railways refuted reports that the Ada✱ni group with its acquisition of online train booking and information platform will become its compe🤡titor.
Instea🅘d꧋, it said the now-Adani-owned platform is one of IRCTC's authorised partners, and an ownership change wouldn't make any difference.
“Trainman is one of the 32 B2C partners of IRCTC, contributing 0.13% of total reserved ticketing, IRCওTC said, adding that around 14.5 lakh reserved tickets are booked daily in the Indian Railways, out of which 81% are e-tickets, booked throu𝓡gh IRCTC,” the reports mentioned.
"This൩ is a misleading statement. Trainman is one of the 32 authorised B2C (Business to Customer) partners of IRCTC. Changing the stake won't make any difference. All integration and operations will continue to be done through IRCTC. It will only complement IRCTC and is not a threat or challenge to IRCTC," the PSU clairified while quoting a tweet from senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh.
In an oficial statement, IRCTC explained that it has partnerships with many agencies under s💙chemes like B2B, EGovernance, B2C etc. to complement it's efforts to reach out to citizens for ease of ticketing, and "there is no competition between IRCTC and 🌞it's agents".
"Further, B2C firms are especially integrated with IRCTC business to provide reserved eticketing servic🎀es to customers d๊irectly through their websites or mobile Apps through IRCTC API," it added.
