NF Railway conducts intensive ticket checking drives regularly in order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel and better services to all bonafide passengers. Keeping a constant vigil against ticketless and irregular travellers, drives are conducted to discourage and curb such activity that leads to inconvenience for genuine passengers.
During the current FY from April till May, 2024 such drives lead to recovering an amount of more than Rs. 14.72 cr from approximately 167154 ticketless travellers within the jurisdiction. Thus the current period of FY 2024-25 (April-May) marked an increase of 18.85 per cent in terms of revenue earnings from ticketless travellers and 14.53 per cent in terms of detected cases from its preceding FY of 2023-24.
It can be mentioned here that during the period from April, 2023 to March, 2024, 793170 nos. of cases of ticketless/irregular ticket passengers were detected leading to more than Rs. 66.27 Cr earnings towards realization of fare and penalties from offenders.
