Mumbai: In order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel & better services to all bonafide passengers over Western Railway, intensive ticket checking drives are being carried out continuously over Mumbai suburban local services, Mail/Express as well as passenger trains & holiday special trains so as to curb the menace of ticketless/irregular passengers.

The highly motivated ticket checking team under the supervision of senior commercial officers of Western Railway organized several ticket checking drives during the months of April to November 2024, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of Rs 93.47 Crore, which also includes Rs 30.63 Crore from Mumbai Suburban section.

According to Vineet Abhishek – Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, during the month of November 2024, an amount of Rs 12.91 crore was recovered through detection of 2.01 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases.

Also, in the month of November, WR realized fines amounting to Rs 4.03 crore through detection of 82 thousand cases over Mumbai Suburban section. To prevent unauthorized entry in AC local trains, frequent surprise ticket checking drives are carried out.

As a result of these drives almost 40,000 unauthorized passengers have been penalized from April to November 2024 and over Rs. 131 lakh collected in fines. Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets.