Dimapur, Aug. 17 (EMN): In a relentless drive against ticketless travelling in mail express and passenger trains, Northeast Frontier Railway detected 74432 ticketless travellers and recovered INR 5.33 crore during July.
The detection and recovery was 6.25 % higher than the corresponding figure of 70057 persons detected during July last year. An amount of INR 5.33 crore was also realised from the ticketless passengers, which was about 9.5 % higher than the corresponding figure of INR 4.84 crore collected during July last year, chief PRO PJ Sharma stated.
It mentioned that during the period from April to July this year, as many as 280443 passengers were detected travelling with irregular ticket or without ticket on the trains. This was about 14% more than the corresponding period of last year. The amount realised during the period was INR 19.24 crore, which is about 22.00% more than last year.
It stated that NF Railway officials have been conducting regular surprise ticket checking drive in mail express and passenger trains. As per section 137 of the Indian Railway Act of 1989, travelling without ticket, improper ticket, or un-booked luggage is an offence punishable by imprisonment or fine or both.
To discourage ticketless travelling, NF Railway has put systems in place whereby surprise ticket checking drive is conducted by flying ticket checking squads of divisions as well as Headquarters. It added that fortress checks were also conducted in stations.
