Gone are the days with the winds when you had to stand in the long queues unendingly waiting for your turn to touch your fingers against the Train Ticket Booking Window just to get the PNR status of your ticket. How tedious it used to be to stand impatiently in the queue and wait for hours for a task of scarcely a minute or so. And then there was no limit to irritation when you heard that the PNR status hadn’t made any progressive movements. Hundreds of times you might have cursed the Railways, the Railways Minister and the Indian Government as a whole. You might have vowed not to travel again by train and yet reached at the door of the train as you had no better options available. Thanks to God. He created such intellectuals that made innovations, improvements and improvisations in the field of science and technology and today you can get the PNR Status on Mobile just at the exertion of slight finger-pressure. Your antecedents might not be as fortunate as you to get such commendable services.
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To get the PNR status on your mobile you need to learn and remember few numbers like 139, 58888, 5676747 and 9773300000. These are the numbers that are widely used in getting the PNR status on mobile. Once you know or have these numbers, a simple process leads you getting your PNR status. You can simply type the PNR number of the train ticket you have and text it on any of the above numbers. Within fraction of second you will receive the latest PNR status on your mobile. But you should know that the world is full of give and take relationships and therefore you definitely have to pay for the services that you enjoy. Except the last number that is 9773300000, all the other numbers are chargeable. But you should be thankful that you are getting such wonderful services at such minimal prices. Had you been born in the previous generation, you would have had long waiting queues and wasted a lot of time, money and energy just to get the latest PNR status of your ticket in waiting.
Some of the websites provide the facility of mobile alerts where you need to register with your mobile number. This service may be free of cost but certainly you pay some minimal amount when you take the services of the internet.
You can also contact the customer care of the service provider of your mobile and get your number registered there. As and when the PNR status changes you will receive the latest PNR status on your mobile phone. This service is also chargeable but charge is not that high that you shrink your lips in distaste.
If your mobile instrument supports the IRCTC mobile app, then you can download it from the IRCTC website and get the facility of getting latest PNR updates. Android apps too are highly used by the customers to get the PNR status on the mobile.
You can see how science and technology have brought about revolutions in our life style. Just a few pressures of your fingers on the mobile keypad and you have the PNR Status on Mobile.
First of all let me thank you for creating and sharing such a great article which is of great importance for me as well as every Indian. Whatever resources you have shared it specially targeting to train. You have shared many resource, i have found one resource too over web which i want to share with you. I found a website http://www.getpnrstatus.co.in , which let you check pnr status of your Indian railways reservation and flight ticket instantly. I hope you like it…