Mumbai: Western Railways cracks down on ticketless travellers in AC locals, improves punctuality of trainsA 15-member squad in Mumbai's AC local trains has fined 709 ticketless passengers, collecting Rs 2.30 lakh between May 30 and June 5. AC tr...
08 Jun, 2025, 09.58 AM IST
Hold on to your ticket, it could win you ₹50,000 in Central Railway’s new Lucky Yatri Yojana schemeCentral Railway introduces the Lucky Yatri Yojana to boost ticketed travel by awarding cash prizes to passengers with valid tickets. Each d...
26 Mar, 2025, 10.45 PM IST
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...
13 Jun, 2024, 06.06 PM IST
Vande Bharat train video filled to the brim with ticketless passengers in Lucknow goes viralA viral video shows overcrowded Vande Bharat train with ticketless passengers. ET Infra reports increased passenger traffic in 2023-24, pro...
11 Jun, 2024, 11.33 AM IST
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...
14 Mar, 2024, 10.50 AM IST
Ticketless passengers 'hijack' AC2 coach of Howrah train. Video goes viralA viral video has raised concerns on passenger safety and comfort issues even in AC compartments of trains. The video shows chaos in the se...
11 Dec, 2023, 03.56 PM IST
Rly penalised 3.6 crore ticketless passengers in 2022-23, earned over Rs 2,200 crore: RTIThe number of ticketless passengers caught by the Railways in 2022-23 is higher than the population of many small countries. If caught, a t...
26 May, 2023, 06.21 PM IST
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-...
05 Jan, 2023, 11.48 PM IST
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...
20 Feb, 2022, 04.24 PM IST
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...
06 Jun, 2021, 05.42 PM IST
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.
23 Aug, 2020, 03.14 PM IST
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.
26 Aug, 2019, 03.23 PM IST
How railways plan to curb ticketless travellersWith 9 million ticketless travellers caught till January this fiscal, railways is trying a two-pronged strategy.
10 Mar, 2019, 03.11 PM IST
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...
02 Mar, 2016, 04.05 PM IST
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...
13 Oct, 2015, 11.00 AM IST
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...
12 Jul, 2015, 12.05 PM IST
- Railways to explore public-pvt partnership for train corridors
Railways will explore the option of public-private partnership for building high-speed train corridors.
07 Sep, 2007, 02.10 PM IST