NF Railway conducted special drive against ticketless travellers

GUWAHATI: NF Railway conducted regular intensive ticket checking drives to keep a check against ticketless and irregular travel. Under the supervision of senior officers, the highly motivated ticket checking team of NF Railway have organized several ticket checking drives during the period from April to August 2022, thereby recovering an amount of more than Rs 29.86 crores.

To further curb the menace of ticketless travelling, a special ticket checking drive was conducted at various railway stations over NF Railway from September 3 to September 10. During the drive, 547 cases were detected and an amount of more than Rs. 4.09 lakhs were collected as excess fare and penalty.

During the period from April to August, 375031 cases of without ticket/irregular ticket passengers were detected and an amount of Rs. 29.86 crores was realized as excess fare and penalty. Altogether it is 326.55% higher in terms of number of penalty cases and 698.76% higher in terms of penalty earnings compared to same period of previous year. 3372 un-booked luggage cases were also detected during the special drive and an amount of more than Rs. 6 lakhs have been realized in this connection till August, 2022 of the current financial year.

Travelling without proper ticket or beyond authorized distance may levy excess charge and fare. In case a passenger fails or refuses to pay the same on demand, he shall be in default of payment and will be prosecuted under relevant sections of The Railways Act, 1989.

NF Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper & valid tickets and carry valid Identity cards in order to avoid inconvenience. Now passengers can purchase unreserved tickets from one part of the country to another through Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) mobile application on their smart phones. The UTS application can be downloaded from both android & apple app-store, stated a press release.

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