Mumbai: In order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel & better services to all bonafide passengers over Western Railway, intensive ticket checking drives are being carried out continuously over Mumbai suburban local services, Mail/Express as well as passenger trains & holiday special trains so as to curb the menace of ticketless/irregular passengers.
The highly motivated ticket checking team under the supervision of senior commercial officers of Western Railway organized several ticket checking drives during the period from April to June 2025, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of Rs 58.79 crore, which is almost 13% higher than the corresponding period last year as well as 11% higher over the target set by Railway Board. This also includes Rs 15.90 crore from Mumbai suburban section.
According to Chief Public Relations Officer of Western Railway, Vineet Abhishek, during the month of June 2025, an amount of Rs 15.24 crore was recovered through detection of 2.42 lakh ticketless/irregular passengers, including unbooked luggage cases.
Also, in the month of June 2025, WR realized fines amounting to Rs 4.19 crore through detection of around 90 thousand cases over Mumbai suburban section.
To prevent unauthorized entry in AC local trains, frequent surprise ticket checking drives are also being carried out. As a result of these drives, around 18750 unauthorized passengers have been penalized during April to June 2025 and almost Rs 63 lakh collected as fine, which is 44% higher than the corresponding period last year.
Western Railway appeals to the general public to travel with proper and valid tickets.
