How seats are given to the passengers in Indian Railway? | Why IRCTC does not allow you to choose seats?
Why IRCTC does not allow you to choose seats? Would you believe that the technical reason behind this is PHYSICS . Booking a seat in a train is far more different than booking a seat in a theatre. Theatre is a hall, whereas train is a moving object. So safety concern is very high in trains. Indian railways ticket booking software is designed in such a way that it will book tickets in a manner that will distribute the load evenly in a train. An example to make things more clear : Imagine there are sleeper class coaches in a train numbered S1, S2 S3... S10, and in every coach there are 72 seats. So when some one first books a ticket, software will assign a seat in the middle coach like S5, middle seat numbered between 30-40, and preferably lower berths (Railways first fills the lower berths than upper one so as to achieve low centre of gravity). And the software books seats in such a way that all coaches have uniform passenger distribution and seats are filled starti