CKWL on Tatkal railway ticket

Posted by Anirudh on December 9, 2009; This entry is filed under misc.
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So the other day I booked a tatkal ticket online from IRCTC. After the usual 500 errors and multiple tries I came to the “Congratulations!” page where they gave me the ticket details. And this is what I found in the ticket’s status “CKWL 23″. I wondered what the heck it was. Googling did not help. I shot off a mail to the IRCTC customer care and within half an hour I got their reply. Reproducing their reply below -

Dear Customer,

Kindly note that CK stands for Tatkal CKWL means Tatkal Wait list Ticket.

Thanks & Regards

So there it goes. Official reply from IRCTC. CKWL is the waiting list for the tatkal quota. It’s just like the “WL” you get on the normal ticket, except it’s on the tatkal quota. No idea what CK stands for though.

Although the reply wasn’t exactly Shakespeare, I was impressed that they got back to me so soon. It’s nice to see the Railways doing good stuff. There’s still room to improve though.

Have you had a similar experience with IRCTC? Frustrating one? Good one? The comment form is right below :)

Update : Found something in the IRCTC site in the ngpay FAQ. It says(in point 9)

Booking can be done against general (GN), ladies (LD) and tatkal (CK) quota berths/seats only.

 

. What this means is that GNWL is General Quota Waiting list, LDWL is Ladies Quota Waiting List and CKWL is Tatkal Quota Waiting list.

If you’re looking to improve the time it takes to book tatkal tickets, you can try the Autofill forms extension. Check out my blog post on how to use the Autofill forms addon.

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10 Comments

  1. naresh December 24th, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    I am also experiencing to same problem.I think now IRCTC is concentrating on profits for indian rail and ignoring the quality of services.

  2. Rahul Pisharody December 31st, 2009 at 11:14 AM

    Got the same CKWL thing today. Glad that I read your blog yesterday :)

    Kudos !

  3. suresh January 11th, 2010 at 10:43 AM

    ckwl 57 will get confirmed in rockefort express to go to thanjavur from cheenai on 12/01/10????

    any previous experince???
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  5. selvam January 21st, 2010 at 8:32 AM

    thank u. me too got answer for CKWL

  6. Dinesh January 23rd, 2010 at 9:10 AM

    “THIRD CLASS” INDIAN E-COMMARCE SITE BECAUSE OF “”"”"DALAL”"”
    I MEAN AGENT !!!!
    CKWL

  7. y p kumar January 25th, 2010 at 4:03 PM

    i got ac 3 tire ckwl-4 in mumbai exp on 27 jan the train is from hyderabad to mumbai i want to know that it will be conform or not

  8. s de February 24th, 2010 at 2:43 PM

    I got a tatkal ticket of WL 17 in sleeper on train 2833. Today is 24th Feb 2010. and my train is on 26th Feb.?
    Total tatkal seats is 229. Is it likely to be confirmed?

  9. Anirudh February 24th, 2010 at 8:46 PM

    @s de : I doubt that the total number of tatkal seats is 229. But I think you have a decent chance of getting your ticket confirmed.

  10. s de February 26th, 2010 at 1:03 PM

    Hi Anirudh, if you enquiry from rail website, you will get this picture:

    2833 HOWRAH EXPRESS 26-2-2010 AHMEDABAD JN KHARAGPUR JN TATKAL

    S.No. Date (DD-MM-YYYY) Class – SL Class -3A

    1 26- 2-2010 WL 86/WL 50 WL 22/WL 15

    2 27- 2-2010 WL 69/WL 49 WL 11/WL 11

    3 28- 2-2010 WL 31/WL 26 WL 3/WL 2

    4 1- 3-2010 AVAILABLE 229 AVAILABLE 27

    Now this is CKWL 2, My train is today. I think it will be confirmed. what do you think??

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