Railway Tickets: The country is currently going through Pitru Paksha and no new work is started during this period. The festival season has begun and when the Navratri festival begins from October 3, the traffic in the country will also increase. During festivals like Dussehra, Diwali, Chhath, there is a huge crowd of passengers in trains. In such a situation, the Railway Ministry has decided to start a special ticket checking campaign to keep an eye on ticketless passengers during festivals. Officials have informed that along with common travelers, special attention will definitely be paid to policemen or policemen because they have been found to be among the biggest rule breakers.
From when to when will this special railway campaign run
This special campaign of the railways will be launched between October 1 to October 15 and October 25 to November 10. For this, strict action has been asked to be taken under the provision of the Railway Act of 1989. According to railway officials, policemen will also be their target. For this, the Railway Ministry has written letters to the General Managers of 17 zones on September 20. In this, action has been asked to be taken against ticketless and non-authorized passengers because there is a crowd during festivals and at that time, along with common people, policemen have also been found traveling without tickets.
Policemen are travelling ticketless in express and AC coaches
A railway official said, “During a surprise inspection between Ghaziabad and Kanpur, we caught hundreds of policemen travelling without tickets. Even in the AC coaches of many express and mail trains, policemen were found travelling without tickets. When we fined them, initially they refused to pay the penalty and the ticket and also threatened us with dire consequences. But we remained fearless and took the payment from them. The reaction of the passengers in particular was very enthusiastic because they were happy to see action against the policemen.”
Ticket inspectors of North Central Railway zone said that they want to focus on passengers accompanied by policemen as such ticketless travellers create problems for passengers with valid tickets.
Every year lakhs of passengers travel without tickets in railways
Railways said that in the financial year 2023-24, 361.045 lakh passengers were caught traveling without tickets. A total fine of Rs 2231.74 crore was collected from them. Railways has given this information on the application made by Chandra Shekhar Gaur under the RTI Act.
Input also from PTI
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