The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) application and website were down on Thursday. Several passengers complained on social media, saying they were not able to book tickets. Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed a spike in reports. IRCTC is yet to respond to the massive outage.On opening the IRCTC app, we could see a 'unable to perform action due to maintainance activity' error.Read More: Complaining about the outage, one person tweeted: "@RailMinIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw @PMOIndia when this fraud will stop , always at 10am irctc website crashes and when you open again all tatkal tickets get booked but only premium tickets with double prices are available, this is clear scam by @IRCTCofficial @raghav_chadha"

"It is 10:11am ... still IRCTC is not opening.... IRCTC should be enquired and checked... definitely scams are happening. By the time it opens all the tickets are gone...," another one added on X, platform formerly known as Twitter."India reached the moon, but the Indian Railways ticket booking app can't handle Tatkal booking without crashing. It's 2024, and a stable server shouldn't be rocket science!" a third person said.Read More: This is the second major IRCTC outage this month. The e-ticketing platform underwent a one-hour maintenance on December 9. Wednesday's outage caused outrage among passengers who were trying to book tatkal tickets, which can be made one day before the train's departure from the originating station, with the following timings: AC classes - Booking starts at 10 AM and non-AC classes - Booking starts at 11 AM.