Passengers from all the states of the country have booked tickets online for the Kedarnath heli service operated during the Chardham Yatra. Within a few hours of the website opening, all the tickets for the month of May were full. More than seven thousand tickets were booked for Shri Kedarnath Dham in a few minutes and then the window was closed. Is this people’s madness for Baba Kedar or some game of agents? Yes, whether these tickets were booked by people personally or the agents did something wrong, it is a matter of investigation. But, this has happened not once but many times through IRCTC.
This is the reason why this process of a few minutes is also reminding of a confirmed railway ticket scam like 2022. At that time, brokers ran a black market of confirmed tickets with many foreign software available on social media. Many brokers were arrested and thousands of IDs were closed. However, the Uttarakhand government has summoned the details of the IP address used for booking. Only this will make it clear what the matter was? Actually, since last year, the responsibility of booking tickets for Shri Kedarnath Dham Heli Service was given to IRCTC. Apart from this, there is no other window or platform. This time also, IRCTC opened the ticket window on its website at 12 am on Tuesday. People started booking tickets. Only 40 minutes later, the slots for the month of May were full. Many people are also raising questions on this. It is not that only name and phone number are entered for booking tickets. A detailed form is filled for this. It is verified through an OTP. But, thousands of people kept waiting for the OTP and the window closed in no time. According to the data, more than seven thousand tickets were booked for 23 thousand people during this period. Obviously, many more people must have tried, most of whom were disappointed. Now it remains to be seen whether these tickets are actually given to the people who have come to see Baba or to some syndicate. It is also difficult to say that the IRCTC system is completely foolproof.
