VRD nets ₹7.96 crore in April through ticket checking
8 months, 1 week ago

VRD nets ₹7.96 crore in April through ticket checking

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Vijayawada division of South Central Railway has earned the highest-ever ₹7.96 crore through ticket checking during April 2024. This is against the ₹.7.36 crore earned during March 2024 Vijayawada divisional railway manager Narendra A. Patil explained that during April 2024, they booked 44,249 cases of ticketless travel and levied a penalty of ₹4.25 crore. Vijayawada senior divisional commercial manager Rambabu Vavilapalli advised passengers purchasing reserved tatkal / normal journey tickets at PRS counters to compulsorily carry the original counter ticket. Rambabu asked passengers to use UTS Mobile App and ATVMs for carrying out cashless transactions and avoid standing in queues for purchasing tickets.

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Vijayawada railway records highest-ever ₹3,975 freight revenue
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Vijayawada railway records highest-ever ₹3,975 freight revenue

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Vijayawada Railway Division of South Central Railway has received Rs 3,975 crore in freight revenue this year as on Tuesday, the highest-ever since the division’s inception. Announcing this on Wednesday, Vijayawada divisional railway manager Narendra A. Patil said the record earnings came with loading of 36.2 million tonnes freight from within division’s area. Narendra Patil maintained that with monthly …

Students form sizeable chunk of ticketless travellers in Chennai suburban trains
1 year, 2 months ago

Students form sizeable chunk of ticketless travellers in Chennai suburban trains

The Hindu  

A majority of passengers found to be travelling in suburban trains in Chennai Division without tickets are not daily wage workers or small-time vendors, but college students. Officials said that most of the students caught travelling without tickets could actually afford the concessional season ticket that they were entitled to, but chose to travel for free. On Monday, Southern Railway …

Vijayawada Division’s ticket-checking earnings touch new high
1 year, 5 months ago

Vijayawada Division’s ticket-checking earnings touch new high

The Hindu  

The Vijayawada Division of the South Central Railway has clocked ₹6.417 crore in ticket-checking earnings during the month of June 2023, the highest earnings recorded in a month in the history of the Division, as per an official release on Wednesday. The release added that as many as 35,880 cases of ticketless travel were registered in June and a penalty …

Ticket checking goes digital in Vijayawada railway division
2 years, 3 months ago

Ticket checking goes digital in Vijayawada railway division

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Vijayawada Railway Division is issuing hand-held terminals to its travelling ticket examiners on 99 percent of its trains, thereby enabling easy checking of tickets, particularly of those travelling on reserved tickets. Senior divisional commercial manager Vavilapalli Rambabu said they have issued 417 HHTs to TTEs on board 248 of total 250 express trains of the division. With excellent outcomes …

Railways earned over Rs 500 crore from Tatkal, premium Tatkal tickets during pandemic
3 years ago

Railways earned over Rs 500 crore from Tatkal, premium Tatkal tickets during pandemic

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Railways earned Rs 403 crore from tatkal ticket charges, an additional Rs 119 crore from premium tatkal tickets, and Rs 511 crore from dynamic fares during 2020-21, even as much of its operations remained suspended through most of the year due to the Covid pandemic, revealed an RTI reply. In a reply to a RTI filed by …

Railway waitlist passengers can now get a flight ticket on the same price. Details here
4 years, 3 months ago

Railway waitlist passengers can now get a flight ticket on the same price. Details here

India TV News  

A Mumbai-based start-up, Railofy, has launched India's first 'Waitlist and RAC Protection' service. The service aims towards tackling the problems faced by the passengers traveling by trains after being put on the waiting list. Deepika Agarwal, a passenger, told IANS: "We had to travel from Mumbai to Delhi, and the tickets for six passengers were on the waiting list. We …

Over 45,000 bookings worth ₹16 crore so far for special trains: Railways
4 years, 7 months ago

Over 45,000 bookings worth ₹16 crore so far for special trains: Railways

The Hindu  

Over 80,000 passengers have booked tickets worth over ₹16 crore on the special trains so far, the Indian Railways said on Tuesday, hours before the first such train is scheduled to depart from the New Delhi station for Bilaspur in Madhya Pradesh. So far, 45,533 bookings worth ₹16.15 crore have been recorded for the special trains for the next seven …

More Tatkal tickets for passengers now as railways roots out illegal softwares
4 years, 10 months ago

More Tatkal tickets for passengers now as railways roots out illegal softwares

The Hindu  

More Tatkal tickets will be available for passengers now as the railways has weeded out several illegal softwares and arrested 60 agents who would use them to block such tickets, a top official said on February 18. Railway Protection Force Director General Arun Kumar said the software cleansing exercise means Tatkal tickets, which would earlier vanish within minutes of opening …

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