The number of railway passengers in India is the highest in the world. At the same time, there are lakhs of crores of people who travel without ticket. If caught, they are fined. The special thing is that in the last financial year, Railways fined more people than the population of Sweden, Greece and Portugal, who were traveling without tickets or on wrong tickets. This information has been given by the Railways in response to RTI. Let us also tell you that how many people have been fined by the Railways and how much has been fined.
Fine imposed on 3.6 crore passengers
According to the RTI reply, the Railways caught 3.6 crore passengers traveling on wrong tickets in 2022-23, which is about one crore more than the previous year. Earlier, in 2019-2020, 1.10 crore people were caught traveling without ticket or with wrong ticket, this number increased to 2.7 crore in 2021-22 and 3.6 crore in 2022-23. In the financial year 2020-21, the year in which the Kovid-19 epidemic spread, this figure was 32.56 lakhs. In response to a query filed under the Right to Information Act by RTI activist Chandra Shekhar Gwar of Madhya Pradesh, the Railways put forward the data of revenue generated from such passengers in the last three years.
Recovery more than Rs 2200 crore
According to statistics, the earnings from the fine collected from such passengers was Rs 152 crore in the financial year 2020-21, which increased to Rs 1,574.73 crore in the financial year 2021-22. In the financial year 2022-23, there was an increase in this revenue and the final figure became Rs 2,260.05 crore. In the financial year 2022-23, the number of passengers held by the Railways without tickets is more than the population of many small countries.
In case of non-payment of fine
If caught, a ticketless passenger has to pay a fine of at least Rs 250 along with the actual cost of the ticket. If someone refuses to pay the fine or does not have the money to pay the fine, then such people are handed over to the Railway Protection Force and a case is registered under Section 137 of the Railway Act. The defaulter is then produced before a magistrate, who can impose a fine of up to Rs 1,000. If the person still does not pay the fine, he can be jailed for up to six months.
More than 2.7 crore passengers could not travel
In fact, according to data provided by the Railways, in 2022-23, despite having bought tickets, more than 2.7 crore passengers could not board trains because their names were on the waiting list, indicating a significant shortage of trains on busy routes. Is. As per the figures in the last financial year, this figure was 1.65 crores.
Number of railway finishers in India is more than these countries
As you have been told that in the financial year 2022-23, the number of passengers traveling without tickets in the country is 3.6 crore, which is more than the total population of Sweden, Portugal and Greece. At present, the population of Sweden is 10,284,072. And the population of Portugal is 10,111,611. And the population of Greece is 10,278,104. There are many countries in the world whose population is not even one crore, but train passengers in India travel without tickets in trains more than the population of those countries.
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