Western Railways (WR) is proud to announce the outstanding achievements of its ticket-checking staff from Flying Squad of Churchgate.
Zahid Qureshi – Dy. Chief Ticketing Inspector in Flying Squad at Churchgate has achieved the impressive milestone of collecting over INR 1 Crore as penalties from commuters traveling without proper tickets and carrying unbooked luggage.
According to a press release issued by Sumit Thakur, Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, Zahid Qureshi has collected INR 1.06 Crores with the detection of 13,116 cases from January to December 2022.
Thakur stated that WR’s women ticket-checking staff are not far behind their male counterparts in this field. Geetaben Vasava, CTI in Flying Squad, Churchgate has collected INR 51.19 Lakhs from 7,085 cases.
It is worthwhile to mention that WR has earned INR 158.28 Crores as ticket-checking revenue from 23.70 lakh cases registered during the period from April 2022 – February 2023, which is an increase of 68.01% over the corresponding period of last year.
Thakur further added that the job of a ticket checker not only requires skill, and tactfulness to detect deceitful passengers traveling without a ticket among genuine travellers, but also requires good knowledge of rules and convincing skills to collect penalty amounts from deceitful passengers. Western Railway is proud to have such skillful and devoted ticket-checking staff.
Western Railway appeals to all rail passengers to travel with valid tickets.
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