Railways recovers Rs 17.3L fine from passengers

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, March 5

A ticket-checking drive of 20 days was carried out by Ambala Division of Northern Railway during which around 3,477 passengers travelling without ticket were caught by staff. Fine amounting to Rs 17,37,485 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 3,477 cases of travel without ticket were found and Rs 17,37,485 was recovered. This includes 43 cases of transfer of ticket and fine of Rs 26,010 in 3,477 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.