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      <description>Monitor Indian Railways 14-day seat availability across classes and quotas with a recurring Python daemon and instant Telegram/Discord webhook alerts when seats become available.</description>
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      <description>Step-by-step guide to building a production-ready WhatsApp bot for live Indian Railways GPS tracking, PNR verification, and seat availability using Baileys and the irctc-api SDK.</description>
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