WR conducts massive ticket checking drives, recovers Rs 57 crore as fines

Western Railway on Wednesday said that it conducted massive ticket checking drives in the past four months and recovered Rs 57 crore as finesIn an official statement the Western Railway said that in order to ensure hasslefree comfortable travel amp better services to all bonafide passengers over Western Railway intensive ticket checking drives are being carried out continuously over Mumbai suburban local services MailExpress as well as passenger trains and holiday special trains so as to curb the menace of ticketlessirregular passengersThe 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 July 2024 thereby recovering an amount to the tune of Rs 5735 crore which also includes Rs1739 crore from Mumbai Suburban section the statement saidAccording to a press release issued by Vineet Abhishek ndash Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway during the month of July 2024 an amount of Rs 520 crore was recovered through detection of 122 lakh ticketlessirregular passengers including unbooked luggage casesAlso in the month of July Western Railway collected fines amounting to Rs 275 crore through detection of 84 thousand cases over Mumbai Suburban sectionThe statement stated that to prevent unauthorized entry in AC local trains frequent surprise ticket checking drives are carried out As a result of these drives almost 17400 unauthorized passengers have been penalized in April to July 2024 and around Rs 60 lakh collected in finesWestern Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets it saidWestern Railway to run special trains from Bandra Terminus for Velankanni festivalMeanwhile in an another statement the Western Railway on Tuesday said that it will run special trains from Bandra Terminus for Velankanni festival 2024In an official statement the Western Railway said For the convenience of passengers and to clear the extra rush on the eve of Velankanni festival 2024 a special train will run between Bandra Terminus and VelankanniAccording to a press release issued by Vineet Abhishek Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway the details of the train is as underTrain No 0909309094 Bandra Terminus ndash Velankanni Special 4 TRIPSTrain No 09093 Bandra Terminus ndash Velankanni Special will depart from Bandra Terminus on Tuesday 27th August 2024 and Friday 06th September 2024 at 2120 hrs amp will reach Velankanni at 0830 hrs on Thursday and Sunday respectively Similarly Train No 09094 Velankanni Bandra Terminus Special will depart from Velankanni on Thursday 29th August 2024 and Sunday 08th September 2024 at 2200 hrs amp will arrive Bandra Terminus at 1500 hrs on Saturday and Tuesday respectivelyEnroute this train will halt at Borivali Vasai Road Panvel Lonavla Pune Daund Solapur Kalaburagi Wadi Krishna Raichur Guntakal Cuddapah Renigunta Katpadi Vellore Cantt Tiruvannamalai Villupuram Cuddalore port Chidambaram Sirkazhi Mayiladuthurai Thiruvarur and Nagappattinam station in both directionsThis train comprises of AC 2Tier AC 3Tier Sleeper Class and General Second Class coachesThe booking for Train No 09093 will open from 09th August 2024 at all PRS Counters and on IRCTC website The above train will run as special train on special fare For detailed information regarding timings of halts and composition passengers may please visit the official web site