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18 lakh passengers caught, Rs 140.8 crore recovered: Railways intensifies checks as penalty earnings jump 40% in just 5 monthsCentral Railway recovered Rs 140.8 crore in penalties from 18 lakh ticketless and unauthorised travel cases between April and August, marki...
Senior citizen couple was denied full access to their reserved berths due to overcrowding; they pursued the matter against Indian Railways in consumer commission and won Rs 50,000 in damagesFamily bought reservation ticket to travel to Tirupati but due to overcrowding manyunreserved, waiting list and ticketless passengers occup...
Railways to tighten noose around ticketless travellers, including cops, during festive rushThe Railway Ministry will launch a special ticket-checking drive during the festive season to curb ticketless travel, including by policeme...
Karti Chidambaram urges Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to restore senior citizens' concessionsCongress MP Karti Chidambaram has urged Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to reinstate senior citizens' concessions and address safety issu...
Mumbai local trains: Travelling without ticket? 'Batman' may catch youMumbai's local trains and stations have seen a rise in ticketless passengers during the evening hours. To tackle this issue, the Western Ra...
Mumbai: Western Railways collected Rs. 135.58 crores as fines from April to December 2022"The highly motivated ticket-checking team under the supervision of senior commercial officers of Western Railway organized several ticket-...
Surge in ticketless travel in first 9 months of 2021-22; railways nabs 1.78 cr passengersSources indicated that one of the major reasons for such a surge in ticketless travel is the fact that even now, when most of the Covid res...
Amid COVID curbs, 27 lakh caught without ticket on trains in 2020-21; cases down to 25% of 2019-20This was, however, less than 25 per cent of the number of cases recorded the previous financial year and that is attributable to the restri...
Railways earned Rs 561 cr from ticketless travellers in 2019-20, revenue up by 38% in last 4 yearsThe Railways has earned Rs 1,938 crore through fines imposed on ticketless travellers between 2016-2020, a rise of 38.57 per cent from 2016.
Railways earn Rs 1,377 cr in fines from ticketless travellers in 3 years; up by 31% from 2016Efforts to curb ticketless travel have resulted in the Indian Railways earning a revenue of Rs 1,377 crore in fines between 2016 and 2019.
How railways plan to curb ticketless travellersWith 9 million ticketless travellers caught till January this fiscal, railways is trying a two-pronged strategy.
Railways registers over 700 cases in Kerala in 7 daysAt least 702 cases, including 631 for ticketless travel, were registered by the Trivandrum division of the Southern Railways during the las...
145.76 lakh people caught travelling without tickets in trainsA total of 145.76 lakh people were caught travelling without tickets in trains till January this financial year as against 165.43 lakh in t...
'7.5 lakh people travelled ticketless, with unbooked luggage'Over seven lakh people in Delhi Division of railways were caught travelling ticketless or with unbooked luggage during the first half of th...
Over Rs 15 crore penalty collected by Northern Railway as 7 lakh travel without ticketsOver 5 lakh passengers were caught ticketless and the penalties amounted to Rs 10.4 crore. A team of train ticket examiners and officials f...
After fall in freight, Indian Railway sees slide in passenger bookingsThe public transporter attributes the fall to the rise in ticketless travel and shift in commuter preference due to improved condition of r...
A quick dose of quirky information on Indian RailwaysWith the government once again turning its attention to fixing the problems of Indian Railways, focus will be on increasing earnings from p...
- Railways to explore public-pvt partnership for train corridors
Railways will explore the option of public-private partnership for building high-speed train corridors.
- Railways to take fun out of sendoffs
Indian Railways may soon launch a decongestion drive for its stations.
- Railways to take fun out of sendoffs
Railways plan a saftey zone on the platform beyond which the family of passengers will not be allowed.