Calcutta, India- Eastern Railway
conducts ticket checking drive in various sections of its four Divisions viz.
Howrah, Sealdah, Asansol & Malda on regular basis to curb free tripping and
to build awareness for travelling in trains with proper ticket and proper
booking of luggage. Apart from day to day checking at station gates and
on-board, ER conducts Special Ticket Checking Drive with Ticket Checking
Special trains in all the sections in ER jurisdiction to build mass awareness
to stop ticketless travelling.
As a
result of such ticket Checking drives ER has detected 24.75 lakhs passengers
without ticket or with improper tickets and with un-booked luggage. Rs. 56.03
Crores has been earned from these passengers from 1.4.2018 to 28.2.2019
registering a growth of 29.76% in ticket checking earnings over the same period
in last year. For the same period (1.4.18 to 28.2.19) passenger traffic of ER
has registered a growth of 3.51 % over last year. The same for passenger
earning is 6.22%. ER has carried 392.34 lakhs more passengers during the period
1.4.18 to 28.2.19 to earn Rs. 147.75 Crores more in comparison to corresponding
period of last year.
Eastern Railway’s Sealdah Division conducting special ticket checking drive in
various sections with ticket checking special train CHETNA to build mass
awareness against free tripping and carrying of un-booked luggage. By
conducting ticket checking drive with CHETANA, Eastern Railway has earned a
total of Rs. 1.36 Crores in 2018-19 by conducting 175 drives in the year
2018-19. With this special drive of CHETANA, Eastern Railway’s Sealdah Division
has apprehended 38242 passengers without ticket or with improper ticket and
31255 passengers with un-booked luggage.
As a result of continuous effort to eliminate free tripping and to build mass
consciousness towards travelling with proper journey tickets, Eastern Railway’s
Sealdah Division has earned Rs. 63.86 Crores more through passenger earnings
during the period from April’18 to February’19 in comparison with same period
of previous year registering a growth of 7.39%.
The number of passengers in Sealdah Division
have also increased by 2.76 Crores till February, 2019 in F.Y. 2018-19 in
comparison with the corresponding period of 2017-18, registering a growth of
4.15%.
The increment in passenger earning in Sealdah Division indicates that
travelling with proper ticket has increased by mobilizing the passengers to
board trains with proper journey tickets and with proper booking of luggage.
Drives through CHETANA has contributed a lot towards this, though somewhere
some people have tried to oppose running of CHETANA.
On
30.3.19, the special ticket checking drive with ticket checking special train
CHETANA was opposed by some people at Sangrampur station of Diamond Harbour
section. However, Eastern Railway will continue the ticket checking drive with
full vigour and more such special ticket checking drive will be conducted in ER
including drive by CHETANA in Sealdah division.
