Railway authorities earn Rs 27.85 lakh in fines from ticketless passengers in Amritsar during August

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 6

Northern Railway's Firozpur Division earned Rs two crore revenue, including Rs 27.85 lakh from Amritsar, from those passengers who were travelling without tickets in August.

The ticket checking teams of the division conducted intensive ticket checking in trains to curb ticketless and irregular travels to provide comfortable travel and better services to genuine rail users. During ticket checking in trains during August 22,242 passengers were found travelling without tickets and nearly Rs two crore was recovered from them as fine. Frequent surprise ticket checking campaigns were held to prevent unauthorised entry of passengers in trains.

To keep the railway stations of the division clean and to prevent people from littering, regular inspections were conducted at the main stations of the division. As a result, over Rs 79,000 were recovered from 476 passengers as fine for littering the station (Anti-Littering Act). Additionally, cleanliness campaigns were also run from time to time to make railway passengers aware of the importance of cleanliness.

Ferozepur division’s Divisional Railway Manager Sanjay Sahu said ticket checking campaigns would continue in the division. The main objective of this checking was to improve the sale of railway tickets and to ensure that no passenger travelled without a ticket.