In order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel & better services to all bonafide passengers over Western Railway, 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 period from April 2023 to February, 2024, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of Rs. 157.12 crore, which also includes Rs. 42.10 Crore from Mumbai Suburban section.        

According to a press release issued by The Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, during the month of February, 2024, an amount of Rs. 15.62 crore was recovered through detection of 2.63 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases. Also in the month of February, WR realized fines amounting to Rs. 4.55 Crore through detection of about 1.02 Lakh cases over Mumbai Suburban section. To prevent unauthorized entry in AC local trains, frequent surprise Ticket Checking drives are carried out. As a result of these drives, almost 56400 unauthorized passengers have been penalized during the period April, 2023 to February, 2024 and more than 1.88 crore were collected in fines, which is about 35% higher than the corresponding period of last year.

Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets.

Source - WR