Since mid-June Central Railways is running special suburban services for essential services staff. To ensure no unauthorised passengers travel in these trains, Mumbai Division of Central Railway conducts intensive and regular ticket checking drive against irregular travel. During the intensive checks conducted by a team of senior officers and Ticket Checking staff from 1st August to 17th September 2020, 4,911 cases were detected and an amount of Rs. 22.37 lakh realized as a penalty.
During the month of August 2020, 2,244 cases of irregular travel were detected and an amount of Rs. 10.74 lakh realized as a penalty. 2,667 cases were detected and an amount of Rs. 11.62 lakh realized as a penalty during the period from 1.09.2020 to 17.09.2020.
A special checking drive was also conducted on 11.09.2020 in Special Trains No 01071 and 05646 by the Mumbai Division. During the drive, 76 cases were detected and an amount of Rs. 72,750/- realized as penalty from these cases. Besides this, 100 cases were detected on the suburban section on 11.09.2020 and amount of Rs. 28,395/- recovered as penalty from these cases. 65 cases of irregular travel were detected on 12.09.2020 in Special Trains no 02534, 01094 & 02142, and amount of Rs. 63,275/- recovered as penalty from these cases. 87 cases were detected on the suburban section on 12.09.2020 and amount of Rs. 26,645/- recovered as penalty from these cases. During the drive from 2.9.2020 to 17.09.2020 in various special trains, 384 cases were detected and Rs. 4,84,130/- realized as penalty from these cases.
During drive irregularities mainly noticed are as under-
1)Misusing of senior citizen quota.
2)Travelling on Altered tickets.
3)Improper conversion of system generated ticket to e-tickets.
4)Travelling with coloured xerox of the ticket.
5)Travelling with fake ID cards.
6)Transfer of ticket cases.
Central Railway has also appealed to the passengers to travel with proper and valid railway tickets in order to avoid inconvenience. Furthermore, given the coronavirus situation, they have also requested people to maintain social distance and avoid over-crowding as much as possible.
Currently, there are 355 trains being run by the Central Railways.
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