Railway Reservation Seat Availability/IRCTC Train Booking/Train Reservation
Why Indian Railways does not allow you to choose seats? Would you believe that the technical reason, behind this, is PHYSICS? Booking a seat on a train is far more different than booking a seat in a theatre. Theatre is a hall, whereas a 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 someone first books a ticket, the 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 a low center of gravity.) And the software books seats in such a way that all coaches have uniform passenger distribution and seats are filled star