Railways recovers Rs 17 3L fine from passengers

  • | Saturday | 6th March, 2021

Tribune News ServiceChandigarh March 5A ticket-checking drive of 20 days was carried out by Ambala Division of Northern Railway during which around 3477 passengers travelling without ticket were caught by staff. Fine amounting to Rs 1737485 was recovered from them by the ticket-checking teams. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic Northern Railway is running a limited number of special and festival special trains for passengers. “A total of 3477 cases of travel without ticket were found and Rs 1737485 was recovered. This includes 43 cases of transfer of ticket and fine of Rs 26010 in 3477 cases” he added.

Tribune News Service Chandigarh March 5 A ticket-checking drive of 20 days was carried out by Ambala Division of Northern Railway during which around 3477 passengers travelling without ticket were caught by staff. Fine amounting to Rs 1737485 was recovered from them by the ticket-checking teams. In view of the Covid-19 pandemic Northern Railway is running a limited number of special and festival special trains for passengers. Hari Mohan Senior DCM Coaching said: “As directed by the headquarters a ticket-checking drive was conducted from February 5 to 25 with focus on detecting unauthorised travelling misuse of senior citizen quota transfer of ticket cases touts/unscrupulous elements and misuse of emergency quota. It was monitored at the officer level.” He shares all trains which passed through Ambala Cantt including train no. 01078 04217 04673 02716 02408 04521 and 02925 were checked by 26 TTEs. “A total of 3477 cases of travel without ticket were found and Rs 1737485 was recovered. This includes 43 cases of transfer of ticket and fine of Rs 26010 in 3477 cases” he added. The Ambala Division authorities have appealed to passengers to travel with proper and valid railway tickets and to purchase their tickets from authorised agents from computerised reservation centres or to book them on website www.irctc.co.in in order to avoid inconvenience.

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