- How will Corona stop, railway officials are praising the rules
Nagpur. If you are not getting a train ticket to go somewhere, then don’t worry, you go to the station calmly, talk to the ticket inspector there and pay a penalty of Rs 250 on the basic fare of the place where you want to go. After taking the slip, board the train going towards your destination.
Yes, nowadays the same ‘play’ is going on in the railways, due to which the common citizens are upset. They do not understand how this system will stop the infection of corona? Whereas the railway officials are running away from this serious problem by citing the rules.
what is the problem
The Railway Board has implemented the Corona Protocol to prevent corona infection. According to this, travel can be done only on reserved seats in trains. Passengers are not allowed to travel more than the prescribed number, that is, if you do not have a reserved ticket, then you cannot travel. According to the rules of the Railways, if anyone violates this, then there is a provision to impose fine on him. But surprisingly, this rule is being misused by the railway officials.
how is the breakup happening
According to the rules, the fine amount should be charged from the passenger if the ticket is caught in the train, but before boarding the train at the station, the passengers are given the slip after taking the fine amount and they are allowed to travel. That is, if the fare from Nagpur to Durg is Rs 130, then after paying a fine of Rs 250, you will get a ticket slip for a total of Rs 380.
Although the slip made with this penalty is only for the general coach, but due to less number of general coaches and the crowd in it, most of the passengers are forced to travel in the sleeper coach. Sources say that this breakup is being done because of the competition of ticket inspectors to take credit for the better performance.
Inspectors who collect more revenue from ticketless passengers are rewarded. Recently, many employees under Nagpur Division of South East Central Railway have been rewarded for recovering better revenue from ticketless passengers. The officials are ignoring the rules of Corona in the process of taking the award.
what are social workers
Basant Shukla, secretary of the Indian Passenger Center and a member of the Railway’s Zonal Advisory Committee, says that he has written a letter to the Chairman of the Railway Board against the fraud and the arbitrariness of the officials. He said that more money is being charged from the passengers than the ticket, but the facility is not being provided to them. After collecting the fine amount, the passenger should be given a seat otherwise they should not make the ticket.
He said that there is a huge crowd in the trains, due to which there is a risk of spreading corona infection. In view of the rush of passengers, the railways should increase the number of trains or stop the system of giving tickets by taking fines. Not only this, bed facility is not being provided in AC coaches, but the full fare is being charged from the passengers. According to the rules, the railways should reduce the fare.