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 local train 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 Western Railway organised several ticket checking drives during the months of April to June 2024, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of INR 52.14 Crore, which also includes INR 14.63 Cr from Mumbai suburban network.
According to an official statement, Vineet Abhishek, Chief Public Relations Officer of WR, during the month of June 2024, an amount of INR 14.10 crore was recovered through detection of 2.25 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also, in the month of June, WR realised fines amounting to INR 4.35 crore through detection of almost 1 lakh cases of Mumbai local train commuters.
To prevent unauthorised entry in AC local trains, frequent surprise ticket checking drives are carried out. As a result of these drives almost 13,000 such passengers have been penalised in April to June 2024 and around INR 43.64 lakh collected in fines.
Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets.
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