Mumbai: Central Railway creates history, records highest ticket checking revenue ever by any zone in Indian Railways. 214.14 crore fine from 35.36 lakh cases is highest amongst all zones in Financial year 2021-22.. To ensure comfortable travel & better services to all bonafide rail users, Central Railway conducts intensive ticket checking in Suburban, Mail Express, Passenger services, special trains across all its divisions to curb ticketless and irregular travel. Despite covid pandemic, the highly motivated ticket checking team of Central Railway creates history by detecting an all-time record of 35.36 lakh cases and recovered a fine of Rs. 214.14 crores during the financial year 2021-22 and
Central Railways record revenue of Rs. 214.14 crore is the highest ever Revenue from ticket checking over Zonal Railways in the history of Indian Railways. The previous highest over Indian Railways was Rs. 207 crore in 2019-20. Central Railway also created record in terms of cases i.e 35.36 lakh cases is the highest in Indian Railways in the year 2021-2022.
Central Railway during financial year i.e April 2021 – March 2022, generated Ticket Checking revenue of Rs. 214.14 crore against Rs. 28.28 crore during April 2020- March 2021 showing an increase of 657.21 %. Similarly in terms of cases, 35.36 lakh cases were detected during April 2021- March 2022 against 6.07 lakh cases during April 2020 – March 2021.
Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti, General Manager, Central Railway said “These milestones in ticket checking performance by Central Railway was achieved despite limited train services, as running of suburban, Mail/Express, Passenger services after lockdown was started in a phases manner with covid restrictions. Intensive Ticket checking ensures comfortable travel & provide better facilities for Bonafide Passengers”.
Ticket Checking team of Central Railway put in lot of efforts in curbing ticketless menace, 6 of the ticket checking staff has shown outstanding performance by collecting revenue of over a crore during financial year 2021-2022, namely, topping the list Mr. Mohammed Sams, TTI, Mumbai Division collected a fine of Rs. 1.25 crore from 15840 cases, Mr. J. J. Darbe, Head Ticket Examiner, Nagpur Division Rs. 1.06 crore from 13,958 cases, Mr. Abhishek Sinha, TTI, Rs. 1.04 crore from 13,494 cases, Mr. Dharmendra Kumar, TTI, HQ, Mumbai Rs. 1.04 crore from 13,273 cases, Mr. K. K. Patel, TE, Bhusawal Division, Rs. 1.03 crore from 14,078 cases, Mr. Sunil Nainani, TTI, Mumbai Division, 1.02 crore from 13,797 cases. Apart from these, there are 12 Ticket checking staff i.e 6 from Bhusawal Division, one from Nagpur, One from Mumabi Division, 4 from Head Quarter collected more than 75 lakh rupees as fine during the FY 2021-2022.
Central Railway appeals to the passengers to travel with dignity with proper and valid railway tickets in order to avoid inconvenience and follow all norms mandated for Covid-19.
