In order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel and 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 highly motivated ticket checking team under the supervision of senior commercial officers of WR organised several ticket checking drives during the months from April to October 2023, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of INR 94.51 crore, which also includes INR 24.38 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 October 2023, an amount of INR 13.32 crore was recovered through detection of 2.17 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also, in the month of October, WR realised fines amounting to INR 3.64 crore through detection of over 77,000 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 around 41,500 unauthorised passengers have been penalised during the period April to October 2023 and INR 136.74 lakhs collected in fines, which is about 86.73% 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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