Officials of the Ferozepur Division collected Rs 2.56 crore fine from ticketless passengers in the division spread across parts of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir in February this year. Besides, hundreds of passengers were fined for littering on premises of railway stations in the division.
Intensive checking drive in trains has been lauched by a team of the Ferozepur Division to curb ticketless and irregular travel and provide better services to genuine rail commuters. During ticket checking in trains in February, staff and chief ticket inspectors of the division caught 25,928 passengers travelling without tickets or irregularly.
