Central Railways (CR) detected 32.77 lakh cases of ticketless/unauthorised travel thereby registering a revenue of INR 218 crores in financial year 2022-23 (April-November). To ensure comfortable travel and better services to all bonafide rail users, Central Railway conducts intensive ticket checking in Suburban, Mail Express, Passenger services, special trains across all its divisions to curb ticketless and irregular travel.
The Ticket Checking revenue of INR 218 crores during April-November 2022 shows a quantum jump of 74.83% over INR 124.69 crores achieved during the same period in 2021-22.
The revenue of INR 218 crores is the highest ever from ticket checking among Indian Railways. It may be mentioned here that the revenue of INR 218 crores of Central Railway is for 8 months only while the previous highest ever INR 214.14 crores revenue of Central Railway was for the full financial year 2021-22.
Ticket Checking team of Central Railway put in lot of efforts in curbing ticketless travel menace, four of the ticket checking staff has shown outstanding performance by collecting revenue of over a crore during financial year 2022-2023.
K.K. Patel Head Ticket Examiner, Bhusaval Division collected a fine of INR 1.05 crore from 12024 cases
Vinay Ojha, CTI, Bhusaval Division - INR 1.02 crore from 12990 cases
R M Gore, CTI, Head Quarter Mumbai INR 1.00 crore from 11024 cases
S.S. Kshirsagar, Head Ticket Examiner Pune Division INR 1.02 crore from 10771 cases.
Central Railway appeals to the passengers to travel with proper and valid railway tickets in order to avoid inconvenience and travel with dignity.
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