15 Sep, 2014 10:27 PM

1328 Railway employees caught by Northern Railway vigilance

Northern Railway vigilance has been carrying out intensive vigilance checks in the Mass Contact Areas at all major locations over Northern Railway. The main emphasis of these checks are to detect touts, unauthorised travel agents & also to detect passengers travelling on transferred tickets purchased from unauthorised sources/agencies. The checks have been carried out at PRS locations, Trains, Booking Offices & on platforms. These checks included preventive as well as decoy checks. The results of the checks are highly successful. on the basis of these checks various system improvements have also been suggested by the vigilance. Intensive Public Awareness Campaign has also been launched in the media to educate the common masses.

The detail of checks carried out during the period 1st Jan 2014 to 27th August 2014 is as follows:

A total of 2259 preventive checks were conducted in Mass Contact Areas which include:
410 checks on PRS (Computerised Passenger Reservation Centre)
862 checks on booking
501 checks in trains
57 checks in JTBS/RTSA/UTA ( Jansadharan Ticket Booking Sevak/Railway Ticket Sales Agent/unauthorized Ticketing Agent)
A total of 58 decoy checks in Mass Contact Areas
357 touts (including 182 unauthorized vendors) & 18 unauthorized travel agents were apprehended in the station premises and prosecuted u/s 144 of Railways Act.
133 TOT (Transfer of Tickets) cases detected and an amount of Rs. 1,19,681/- was realized from them.

Out of the total no. of 2259 preventive & 58 decoy checks carried out during this period most of the checks were successful & 1328 checks have resulted into DAR action & accordingly DAR action has been initiated against 1328 railway staff.