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 & 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 of April to November 2024, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of INR 93.47 crore, which also includes INR 30.63 crore from Mumbai Suburban section.
According to a press release issued by Vineet Abhishek, Chief Public Relations Officer of WR, during the month of November 2024, an amount of INR 12.91 crore was recovered through detection of 2.01 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also, in the month of November, WR realised fines amounting to INR 4.03 crore through detection of 82,000 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 almost 40,000 unauthorised passengers have been penalised from April to November 2024 and over INR 131 lakh collected in fines.
Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets.
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