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The e-ticketing website of the IRCTC booked more than 500,000 tickets on August 12, the highest-ever tickets booked in a single day.
"There has been a record booking of 504,000 e-tickets yesterday," said a senior IRCTC official.
IRCTC, a subsidiary of railways, has invested about Rs 11 crore to strengthen and upgrade its ticketing website for facilitating booking of more tickets.
Earlier on March 1, this year the website had booked 502,000 tickets.
The average daily booking was around 385,000 last year 2012-13, which has now become 430,000 daily.
IRCTC has also taken a slew of measures for smooth running of its system like blocking of agents during the initial two hours of booking from 8 AM to 10 AM and Tatkal ticket booking from 10 am to 12 noon respectively.
It has been done for preventing illegal booking through automated software by touts and thus making the system available only to the individual users during this period, which draws the maximum rush.
IRCTC is revamping its site by increasing the booking rate to 7,200 tickets per minute from its existing capacity of around 2,000 tickets and also augmenting the capacity to handle 120,000 users at any point of time as compared to its existing 40,000 users.
