In order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel & better services to all bonafide passengers over Western Railway (WR), intensive Ticket Checking drives are being carried out continuously over Mumbai suburban local services, Mail/Express as well as passenger trains and holiday special trains so as to curb the menace of ticketless/irregular passengers.
The Ticket Checking staff worked with full zeal and the highly motivated team under the supervision of Senior Commercial Officers of WR organised several ticket checking drives during the months from April to December 2023, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of INR 128.42 Crore, which also includes INR 33.60 Crore from Mumbai Suburban section.
According to a press release issued by Sumit Thakur, Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, during the month of December, 2023, INR 12.71 Crore was recovered through detection of 2.24 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also, in the month of December, WR realized fines amounting to INR 3.54 Crore through detection of about 91,000 cases over Mumbai Suburban section.
To prevent unauthorised entry in AC local trains, frequent surprise Ticket Checking drives are carried out. As a result of these drives more than 46000 unauthorized passengers have been penalized during the period April to December 2023 and INR 154.67 lakhs collected in fines, which is about 50% higher than the same period of last year.
Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets.
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