Knowing Your PNR Number

Indian Railway is the largest human transport system in the world. Over 20 million passengers travel daily by train all over India. And it has growing demand each day. Though there are introduction of new station, new train and new routes, yet those remain insufficient with the growing need. Of course occasions, festivals and holidays increase the demand of booking the tickets since they love to join with their families, friends and relatives. Sometimes there are lots of tickets that remain in waiting exceeding 100-200 or even more than that. Therefore, the passengers make sure whether their PNR status is confirmed or not before they board the train.

Indian Railways have a Passenger Name Record [PNR] in the database of computer reservation system. That contains the itinerary of passengers. Though the name PNR was first used by Airlines, yet afterward popularized by Railways. The Indian Railway PNR is the unique identifier and distinguishes one ticket from the other.

While talking about Indian Railways, PNR is the exceptional indicator to a record in the database of railways. It describes the comprehensive journey details. That includes

1)      Details about traveler: Name, age, sex, berth preference

2)      Details about rail ticket: This includes train no, date, details of your visit places (from, to), reservation, class, quota and berth.

3)      Payment details: This includes mode and charge of the payment.

What does this 10 digit no. signify?

The ten-digit number is again divided into two parts. They are the first 3 and the second 7.

The first 3 digits make it specific from which Passenger Reservation System (PRS) it has been booked. Though the first digit does not speak of from which PRS it is booked, rather it explains zonal information.

The second seven digits numbers are randomly used numbers usually generated to make the PNR number only one of its kinds. It does not have any significance about the ticket or journey in order to represent any information. When the time period of the journey gets over, PNR number does not have any significance.

Indian railway has made it very easy to know the PNR status. Long have gone the days when people had to wait in the long queues or encounter ever remained busy railway number to get the status of the ticket or any other enquiry. With the advent of technology, a number of ways are facilitated to the passengers to know their PNR status easily. To check the status of PNR number, one can take the help of Smartphone and computer. And, in both the cases, it is required to have internet connectivity. Once you enter into the official website, you enter your PNR number which will give detailed result of the ticket and will be displayed in the respective gazette such as computer or mobile.

Thus, it is very convenient to get the information at the finger tips without going to the counter while sitting at home. There are also many other ways going to be introduced by the Indian Railways to make it much easier.