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...
22 Sep, 2024, 04.13 PM IST
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 ...
13 Oct, 2023, 04.10 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
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
Central Railway nets Rs 155 crore in fines from ticketless passengersThis is 14.44 per cent higher than the fines of Rs 135.56 crore recovered during the same period in 2018, he added. In a release, CR said i...
13 Jan, 2020, 11.13 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
'Tera Time Aayega': Inspired by 'Gully Boy', Piyush Goyal warns people about ticket-less travel with Western Rly rap songWestern Railway had released a rap song a day after the movie hit the theatres.
19 Feb, 2019, 02.02 PM IST
Parliament panel flags losses due to ticketless travellingThe committee are deeply concerned to note the huge number of persons detected travelling without or with improper tickets in Indian railwa...
31 Dec, 2017, 02.02 PM IST
Central Railway nets Rs 100.67 crore from ticketless travellers in 7 monthsAn amount of Rs 100.67 crore was realised from them as fine against Rs 80.02 crore during the same period last year, an increase of 25.81 p...
12 Nov, 2017, 11.57 AM IST
- 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...
09 Oct, 2017, 01.24 PM IST
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...
22 Nov, 2016, 09.56 PM IST
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...
20 May, 2016, 08.00 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
'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...
11 Dec, 2015, 05.35 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
Western Railway collects Rs 6.45 crore from ticketless travellersThis amount is 12.68 per cent more than the corresponding month of last year," it said, adding WR has regularly taken innovative steps.
19 Aug, 2015, 06.28 PM IST