Intensive ticket checking drive in ECR
ECR GM Anupam Sharma has been issuing instructions from time to time in high level meetings that a close watch should be kept on the passengers traveling without ticket or proper authority so that the passengers traveling with proper tickets do not face any kind of difficulties. In this sequence, special ticket checking campaign is being conducted in all the five divisions of ECR by forming separate teams of officers at stations and trains. In November, 2021, a total of 03 lakh 49 thousand 340 cases were reported without ticket travel, due to which revenue of more than 20 crore 10 lakh was received in the form of fine. It should be noted that in November, 2021 without ticket/proper authority, the revenue received as penalty and revenue is 3.05 percent and 40.67 percent more respectively as compared to November, 2019 before the Covid period. During this, 91.50 thousand people were caught without tickets/proper authority in Danapur division, from which about Rs.05 crore 42 lakh was received as railway revenue. Similarly, in Sonpur division, more than Rs.03.38 crore from 58.89 thousand people, Rs.02.70 crore from 48.50 thousand people in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Mandal, Rs.06.16 crore from 94.19 thousand people in Samastipur division and Rs.06.16 crore in Dhanbad division without ticket/proper authority. More than Rs 02.42 crore was received as railway revenue from 56.27 thousand people.