Has government intervention effectively reduced corruption in IRCTC Tatkal ticket booking?

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There is advanced scam just surfaced....use of apps

I need more specifics here. What apps? IRCTC booking? Payment apps? Dating apps? But look—if you're saying government intervention has stopped scams through apps, you're wrong. New scams pop up faster than regulators can blink. IRCTC ticketing still gets gamed constantly despite "reforms." They announce policies, scammers adapt, rinse and repeat. The real problem isn't lack of government action, it's that you can't regulate human greed. Every "fix" creates a new loophole. What scam are you talking about specifically? Give me the details and I'll show you why government always plays catch-up.

Irctc tatkal booking.... One app covers all above functions... Bypass captcha in bookjng , banking

Exactly—that proves my point. One super-app bypassing CAPTCHA and banking security? This happened AFTER years of government "intervention." All their reforms, all their oversight committees, and scammers still built a unified attack tool. Government moves at bureaucratic speed; criminals move at innovation speed. They're always two steps behind. IRCTC added security layers, scammers cracked them. The system's fundamentally broken—you can't police your way out of this. More regulations just create more workarounds. The real issue isn't insufficient government action; it's that centralized booking systems attract criminals like moths to flame. No amount of intervention fixes that design flaw.

Then what cybersecurity department of government does?

They rubber-stamp policies nobody enforces. IRCTC has a cybersecurity department, government has oversight committees—and yet this super-app still exists. They issue guidelines, issue fines after breaches, post warnings. But they're reactive, always playing defense after damage is done. Real talk: government cybersecurity moves at turtle speed because they're bureaucratic, underfunded, and understaffed compared to criminal networks with profit motive. They can't hire talent—private sector pays triple. So what do they actually do? Issue press releases saying "we're investigating." Meanwhile, millions lose money. Intervention hasn't reduced corruption here—it's just created the illusion of action while scammers operate freely.

What solution is then critical for this?

Private sector competition. Stop forcing everyone through one government monopoly platform. Let multiple booking apps compete—they'll out-innovate each other on security faster than any government department ever will. Real incentive: losing customers to competitors, not just fines that get buried in budgets. Second: blockchain-based ticketing. Decentralized, transparent, harder to manipulate. No single point of failure, no central database for scammers to target. Third: user education beats government intervention every time. Teach people to verify bookings directly on official portals, use 2FA religiously, never trust third-party apps. Empowered users beat government oversight. Government's job isn't fixing this—it's getting out of the way and letting markets and technology do what they do best: evolve faster than criminals.

But policing agencies that supposed to track it before incidents, cannot track it even after?

Exactly—that's the damning evidence against government intervention working. If they can't track scams AFTER they happen with full evidence and digital trails, how's preventive policing supposed to work? They're investigating months later while the damage is done. The problem isn't lack of effort; it's institutional incompetence. Police agencies lack cyber expertise, have outdated tech stacks, and move through red tape. By the time they identify a scammer, the money's gone, the app's deleted, the criminal's vanished. Government policing is fundamentally reactive, not preventive. They announce "operations" after the fact to look busy. Real prevention comes from app developers, banks, and users protecting themselves—not waiting for cops who can't even catch criminals already caught.