More than 743,000 commuters have obtained railway season tickets for suburban train journey in almost a month since local train services resumed for fully vaccinated general public in Mumbai. Central Railway (CR) issued 548,046 railway passes while Western Railway (WR) issued 195,397 suburban railway passes to passengers to travel in Mumbai locals, in a month.
The maximum numbers of passes were issued at Dombivli and Borivli railway stations.
Meanwhile, the number of ticketless commuters has significantly increased on CR with more than 100,000 passengers fined for travelling without a ticket in a month. The railway has collected ₹3 crore as fine from them. On WR, 15,786 passengers were fined for travelling without railway tickets and ₹43.92 lakh was recovered from them.
