Title - Central Railway registers 26% Increase in Ticket Checking Earnings in April 2018

Central Railway registered a record ticket checking earnings of Rs.25.90 crore in the month of April 2018 through its intensive campaign against ticketless and irregular travel. 

Central Railway has detected a total of 4.40 lakh cases of ticketless/irregular travel and unbooked luggage in the month of April 2018, as against 3.59 lakh cases in the corresponding month of last year  April 2017. 

The earnings realized from such ticketless/irregular travel during the month of April 2018 is Rs. 25.90 crore as against Rs. 20.49 crore registered during the April 2017 showing an increase of 26.41 % in earnings. 

In addition during the month of April 2018, 867 cases of transfer of reserved journey tickets were detected and Rs. 7.29 lakh recovered as penalty.