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Indian Railways Reservation: Western Railway has disbanded all its ticket checking squads last month and deployed them for checking in trains. Actually, ticket checking staff is being sent to trains to strictly enforce the rules related to railway travel made years ago.
Only those passengers should travel in the sleeper and AC class of trains who have confirmed tickets. If you travel with a waiting ticket, you will have to get down at the next station with a penalty. This is being done so that the passengers traveling in these classes do not face any kind of problem, but this strictness is having the opposite effect.
Complaints regarding passenger facilities increased
In the last few days, there has been a 36% increase in complaints regarding passenger facilities. Till now, railway passengers travel by taking special category waiting counter tickets. Also, if one seat was confirmed on one PNR, then the rest of the passengers on the waiting list also used to travel. Due to this, there were more passengers than the fixed seats in sleeper and AC coaches.
For passenger facilities and safety, the railways stopped the checking squad on June 18 and deployed ticket checking staff for checking in trains. What should have happened was that the ticket checking staff should have dropped the passengers traveling without confirmed tickets at the next station. So that the passengers can travel comfortably according to the seat in the respective coach, but this is not happening.
Penalty for travelling in general coach
- Now, one will have to pay a fine for travelling in sleeper and AC coaches by taking waiting and general tickets in trains.
- If you travel on a waiting ticket in AC coach, you will have to pay a fine of Rs 440 plus the fare till the next station.
- If you travel on a waiting ticket in sleeper coach, you will have to pay a fine of Rs 250 along with the fare till the next station.
- If you travel in AC coach by taking general ticket, then earlier a receipt for extra journey ticket was generated which has now been discontinued.
Announcement of traveling with confirmed ticket
According to information received from the railway, at present the clone train of Malwa Express is running three days a week. Ratlam division has written a letter to the Railway Board to regularize this train. PRO Sharma said that from Monday, an announcement will be made on the platform that only confirmed tickets can be used for travelling.
General coaches will increase in trains
Keeping in mind the convenience and safety of passengers, strictness has been increased. Along with ticket checking staff, RPF force is also being sent in trains. Now travel in sleeper and AC coaches will be possible only with confirmed tickets. 10 thousand non-AC coaches will be prepared in the next two years. This also includes more than five thousand 300 general coaches. After this, passengers will be able to easily get confirmed tickets in long distance trains. – Pradeep Sharma, PRO, Ratlam Division
Passengers are facing problems instead of convenience
The railways have started this campaign without any preparation. When the sleeper coach is overcrowded, the ticket checking staff takes the passengers travelling unauthorisedly to the last sleeper coach. Because at many places the train stops for just two minutes. In such a situation, there are so many passengers in the last sleeper coach that there is no space left to keep the feet.
In such a situation, the staff is unable to impose penalty. Here the passengers face problems in this coach. Also, the general coach gets full at the starting station itself, so most of the unauthorized passengers have to get down at the intermediate station.