In order to provide comfortable travel and better services to all bonafide rail users, the Central Railway cracked down on ticketless and irregular travellers through intensive ticket checking across all divisions.
The Central Railway’s ticket checking team generated a record ticket checking revenue of Rs 143.37crore for the period April to August 2022.
During the month of August, the Central Railway registered a revenue of Rs 17.16 crore through 2.92 lakh cases of ticketless and irregular travel, including unbooked luggage.
A total of 21.19 lakh cases of ticketless and irregular travel and unbooked luggage were detected as against 9.94 lakh cases in the corresponding period last year, thereby showing an increase of 114.21 per cent.
