Ambala Railway Division collects Rs 8.17-cr fine in November

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 4

The Ambala Division of Northern Railways earned ‘the highest-ever’ amount of Rs 8.17 crore from 1.35 lakh cases of irregular travellers and travellers without ticket in November.

Divisional Railway Manager Gurinder Mohan Singh said: “The Ambala Division has recorded the highest-ever ticket checking earnings during November this year, thereby surpassing the previous best of Rs6.14 crore registered during October (previous month). This is a gallop jump by the quantum of Rs2.03 crore (35 per cent)”.

Highest-ever earnings

The Ambala Division has recorded the highest-ever ticket checking earnings during November this year, thereby surpassing the previous best of Rs6.14 crore registered during October (previous month). This is a gallop jump by the quantum of Rs2.03 crore (35 per cent).RsGurinder Mohan Singh, Divisional Railway Manager

A total of 826 checks were conducted during the month across the division. To ensure Covid norms, 255 cases without masks were implicated and a penalty of Rs65,400 was realised.

The division is laying special emphasis on curbing the menace of littering to make railway stations clean. In November, a total of 132 passengers were apprehended under the Anti-Littering Act and Rs24,475 had been realised from them.

Senior Divisional Commercial Manager Hari Mohan appreciated Pankaj Goyal, commercial inspector/ticket checking and the ticket-checking staff of the division.

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