The East Coast Railway (ECoR) during a cleanliness and anti-spitting drive fined 9,435 persons for spitting and littering in railway premises. An amount of Rs 6, 21, 400 was collected as fine.
Spitting and littering entails a fine of Rs 100 at ‘A1’ Class stations like Bhubaneswar, Puri and Visakhapatnam, Rs 50 at ‘A’ Class stations like Bhadrak, Brahmapur, Cuttack, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Khurda Road,
Palasa, Rayagada, Srikakulam Road, Vizianagaram and Sambalpur and Rs 30 at rest of the stations. The fine may be doubled shortly in a view to stop spitting and littering and can be enhanced up to Rs 500, said an ECoR release.
As per a new rule, no person shall throw or deposit litter in any occupied and unoccupied railway premises or cook, bath, spit, urinate, defecate, feed animals/birds, repair or wash vehicles, washing utensils/clothes or any other objects or keep any type of storage in any railway premises or paste and put up any posture or write and draw anything in any compartment, carriage of railways, premises thereof without any lawful authority or indulge in defacing railway property in station buildings, platforms, railway tracks and other property belonging to the Railways shall be punished and will be imposed with fine.