Mumbai: More than 40,000 commuters that are not vaccinated or have only taken a single dose captured because of traveling tickets in the suburban network since August 15 and almost Rs 1 Crore in the fine recovered from them, officials said.
The rules only allow them to have a double vaccine to travel by local trains 14 days after their second shot, by graduating monthly season.
Only in a week after the rules relaxed, there are 3 general commuter lakh with a double vaccine traveling using a pass.
The passenger rights groups demanded that the train also publish daily tickets to being fully vaccinated.
Those who were caught by rats in 53 stations were mostly citizens who went to their workplace and ‘desperate’ to travel.
Some of them are wage recipients every day, who don’t want to buy monthly feeding at all.
A commuter, asking anonymity, saying: “There is a gap 84 days between two vaccines and we have to wait another 15 days before we are authorized to travel by train.
For a long time waiting.
Because the train is the best transportation mode, there will be a case of traveling without a ticket.
“The general public was rejected by a daily travel ticket and therefore tickets, said a Cr-official.
Subhash Gupta, President Rail Yatri Parishad, said: “The train is usually appealing to people to travel only if necessary and urgent.
So, they have to issue a daily ticket because many double vacuted commuters may not want to travel by train every day.
They must Having an option to buy tickets for one day trip for some urgent work or in an emergency.
“The statistics provided by CR showed that between August 11 and August 20, a total of 34,391 passengers were arrested without a ticket.
Cr collects a fine of Rs 1.42 Crore from these offenders.
Of this number, almost 14,100 was fined between August 15 and August 20.
In Cr, the average number of passengers captured without a ticket per day since August 15 reached 2,348 compared to 1,450 passengers per day between August 1 and August 14.
August 13, 167 passengers were arrested without a ticket.
WR was collected by RS 34.12 Lakh from these offenders.
In the period August 15 to August 21, almost 4,622 passengers were arrested from whom Rs 12.05 lakh was collected as a penalty.
A WR official said, “On average, 40 passengers were more captured without a ticket per day since the train travel opened for people who were fully vaccinated from August 15.
Before August 15, the average number of passengers captured without a ticket reached 610 per day .
“The train has so far been restored more than Rs 8 Crore in a fine of Ticketless travelers since April.
Gupta said he would submit a petition to the government to enable them in the 18-44 age group to travel with a single dose vaccine because they had a “higher immunity” than those over 45 years old.
“We are strict when it comes to wearing a fine on travelers without a ticket.
In fact, we have done the castle check (TCS at all entry points / out of the station and on FOBs etc.) during the office hours of office and arrest illegal travelers,” said the Chief of the Republic Talk to CR Shivaji Silar.
Halfs is Rs 260 plus train tariffs, he added.