To check ticketless travelling by passengers in trains, the Ferozepur division of Northern Railway carried out intensive checking of passengers in trains and levied Rs 3.30 crore as fine on 37,758 passengers in October. Of them, 6,321 ticketless passengers were found at the Amritsar railway station and a fine of Rs 49,70,354 was recovered from them.
Dr Seema Sharma, Divisional Railway Manager, said in the month of October, a total of 37,758 passengers were found travelling without tickets by the ticket checking staff and chief ticket inspectors of the division. A revenue of about Rs 3.30 crore was earned as fine. This was well above the target of Rs 2.50 crore for the month which is 32 per cent more than the target given to the division.
