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 Western Railway organized several ticket checking drives during the months of April to August 2024, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of INR 62.31 Crore, which also includes over INR 20 crore from Mumbai Suburban section.
According to a press release issued by Public Relations Department of Western Railway, during the month of August 2024, an amount of INR 4.96 crore was recovered through detection of 1.19 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also, in the month of August, WR realised fines amounting to INR 2.62 crore through detection of 82,000 cases over Mumbai Suburban section.
Moreover, to prevent unauthorised entry in AC local trains, frequent surprise ticket checking drives are carried out. As a result of these drives almost 23,800 unauthorised passengers have been penalised in April to August 2024 and over INR 78 lakh collected in fines.
Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets.
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