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The assemblage cameras, which relation for up to 8 hours, volition grounds video footage during summons inspections. (Express Archive Photo/ Deepak Joshi)
In a important determination to amended transparency and tackle ticketless travel, Western Railway (WR) has begun equipping its summons checkers (TCs) with assemblage cameras. The inaugural aims to grounds immoderate inappropriate incidents oregon disputes that whitethorn originate during summons checks, making enforcement actions much effectual and aiding successful maintaining instrumentality and order.
Ticketless question has agelong been a situation for railways, with galore passengers caught without valid tickets refusing to wage fines. These situations often escalate into disputes and, astatine times, adjacent pb to convulsive incidents.
To code these increasing concerns, WR is taking a proactive stance by providing assemblage cameras to summons checkers, ensuring amended monitoring of these situations. Western Railway presently has astir 1,200 summons checkers successful the Mumbai division, which includes suburban bid TCs.
Vineet Abhishek, the Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of Western Railway, mentioned that arsenic portion of a aviator project, assemblage cameras person already been distributed to a prime radical of TCs. Over time, the cameras volition beryllium rolled retired to each summons checkers successful the division.
The assemblage cameras, which relation for up to 8 hours, volition grounds video footage during summons inspections. These recordings volition beryllium utilized to instrumentality enactment against passengers who either question without tickets oregon garbage to wage the fine, nether Section 140 of the Railway Act, 1989.
In summation to the cameras, WR has introduced a Pre-Custody Area astatine prime railway stations for passengers caught traveling without tickets and refusing to wage fines. These areas, located connected platforms, are designed to amended passengers connected railway question rules. If passengers inactive garbage to comply, they volition beryllium issued a memo and handed implicit to the Railway Protection Force (RPF). Pre-Custody Areas person been acceptable up astatine Borivali and Andheri stations, with plans to grow to different stations successful the future.
“The process of providing assemblage cameras to bring transparency to summons inspections has begun. This volition besides assistance deter passengers from traveling without tickets,” said Vineet Abhishek, CPRO, WR. He further added that the aviator task has already shown affirmative results, with a betterment summation from 20 to 80 percent successful fines.
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As per the WR betwixt April to December 2024, they collected implicit Rs 100 crore successful fines from ticketless travelers.
Meanwhile, Central Railway (CR) besides initiated a akin task past year. The CR Mumbai part has purchased 50 assemblage cameras for its summons checkers arsenic portion of its aviator project. However, CR officials said that they person submitted a connection for further cameras and enlargement of the project, arsenic the part has implicit 1,200 TCs. “The connection is presently nether consideration, arsenic backing for much cameras volition beryllium required,” said the official.
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