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She had a confirmed 2AC berth, but one small mistake cost her railway penalty, nearly double the ticket fareAn Indian Rpassenger faced a hefty penalty for boarding a train at a station different from her ticket's origin. Indian Railways staff mark...
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...
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...
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...
After Thane, now Railways catches record 4,000+ ticketless travellers in Mumbai's Borivili station in a dayThe Western Railway conducted a major crackdown on ticketless travelers at Borivali station, fining a record-breaking 4,166 individuals in ...
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...
In one month, North Western Railway collects over Rs 6.6 crore from ticketless travellersAccording to Chief Public Relations Officer Shashi Kiran, a ticket checking campaign was conducted in all the four divisions in November, i...
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...
How railways plan to curb ticketless travellersWith 9 million ticketless travellers caught till January this fiscal, railways is trying a two-pronged strategy.
- Railway TCs allege they are given "unrealistic" targets
A WR official, however, said revision of target is a routine exercise, which is done whenever it is found that there is a spike in ticketle...
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...
Western Railway recovers Rs 12 crore as penalty for irregular travel in April299 cases of illegal transfer of reserved tickets were detected last month, 1219 beggars and unauthorised hawkers were apprehended, evicted...
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...
Western Railway earns Rs 50 crore from ticket-less travellersWestern Railway, in its drive against ticket-less travellers, has earned Rs 50 crore in the half of this financial year, a senior railway o...
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...
Massive investment of $120 billion will be made in railways in five years: Suresh PrabhuIn order to encourage innovative solutions, Railways will announce awards for the best idea put forward, Prabhu said.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu seeks solution from youth to curb ticketless travelAiming at engaging youth in Indian Railways, Prabhu sought innovative ideas for improvement in facilities in the public transporter.
- Railways to explore public-pvt partnership for train corridors
Railways will explore the option of public-private partnership for building high-speed train corridors.