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Vijayawada: The Booking window earnings of Vijayawada Railway Division, during the Pooja festival season, was to the tune of Rs 10.12 crore, as against Rs 7.43 crore last year.A railway press release here today said during this period Vijayawada station booking window earnings registered an increase of 48.19 per cent, over the previous year.This could be achieved due to constant monitoring of the traffic trends at Stations, operation of additional booking counters at Vijayawada, Tenali, Kakinada Town, Kakinada Port, Samalkot, Rajahmundry and Tuni Railway stations and augumenting additional coaches and running special trains, it said.During the same period the ticket checking earnings have been to the tune of Rs 2.22 lakhs and 682 cases were detected in 18 special checks conducted by officers and staff, it added.