Title - Railway tightens noose around ticketless passengers

RAIPUR: In the ticket checking drive conducted in August, South Eastern Central Railways registered 20,000 cases of ticketless passengers, with Rs 71.6 lakh collected as fine. According to railway officials, there has been an increase of 17.65 per cent as compared to last year's collection of Rs 60 lakh against 17,000 cases of ticketless passengers.

There has been a notable increase in the number of ticketless passengers from April to August. Railways have collected about Rs 4.34 crore as fines from April to August, against 1.20 lakh ticketless cases. It's almost an increase of nine per cent compared to last year's amount.