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Two Cousin Brothers, one from IIT Kharagpur and another one from NIT Jamshedpur have launched a mobile app dubbed as 'Ticket Jugaad' with a unique algorithm to find out the alternative routes for getting seats in the train.
"There are some station-wise quotas for ticket booking. For example, if you are booking a ticket from station A, it might show waiting list but when you book it from a previous station you might get the ticket. If you try to find out such stations manually it becomes tough but our app has automated this," the app's developer Runal Jaju said.
The app is developed by second year IIT Kharagpur student Jaju and his cousin brother Shubham Baldava, who studies in NIT Jamshedpur.
The student for the startup won the prize of Rs. 1.5 lakh in IIT Kharagpur's Annual Global Business Model Competition, supported by Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT.
The app automatically detects the available tickets from the source destination to provide passenger the maximum path that can be covered with a confirmed ticket. The Indian Railway allows the passenger to board the train from a station which comes after the booking station.
"What we do is to provide you with all the possible permutations and combinations to cover the maximum part of your journey", the 20-year-old engineering student said. "When I went to the website to book tickets it showed waiting list while when I boarded the train it had few empty seats. They were left unutilised despite a huge demand and so I thought of solving this problem by using technology."
The idea of developing the app comes from Jaju's personal experience while travelling in between Kharagpur in West Bengal and his hometown of Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Soon after this, he contacted his cousin, a computer science student in NIT, who did the coding part of the app.
Currently, the app is only available for the Android Platform. But the student entrepreneurs are now planning to launch it on a website and Apple's iOS operating system as well.
Ticket Jugaad has partnered with online travel agency Cleartrip for booking tickets.
"We will never have ads on our platform. To raise the revenue we will try to get a license for booking the tickets from our app," he said adding that they are trying to expand their services gradually.
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