The financial capital of India, Mumbai, is home to people from different parts of India. People come from all over the country to make a living in Mumbai. This whole environment of daily lives of these people are dependent on none other than the local trains of Mumbai. The public uses the local train daily to commute daily to work and back home.
But, these days something different and shocking is happening in Mumbai local trains. There are many commuters who are travelling ticketless daily, and recently the Western Railways have collected fines from these commuters in lakhs.
According to a Hindustan Times report, the Western Railways caught 5,274 people travelling without valid tickets in just three days of fortress checking, earning revenue of ₹13.93 lakh in fines. The railway is now planning to conduct surveys and speak to passenger associations to address the issue.
We all should know that travelling without a ticket is not just a crime but also a social offense. But why is the public doing this even after knowing that they are committing a crime? The railway stations in Mumbai continuously announce everyday that travelling ticketless is a crime, but still people listen to it and ignore it.
Railways have now fined these ticketless travellers and are planning to tackle the issue, but why did it take this long? I live in Mumbai, and use the local trains to commute daily. After listening to all these recent events, I was able to weave where it is going wrong.
When a person has to commute through local trains in Mumbai, they have to stand in a long queue to buy a ticket. But, the railway has other options too to buy tickets. The stations are equipped with ticket generating machines, to buy tickets. There is a particular app dedicated for people to buy their ticket. So, the commuters have these three options to get their tickets, yet they choose to travel ticketless.
Let us first look at these three options and identify where it goes wrong from the railway's side.
As I said before, there are long queues to buy physical tickets. So, people travel ticketless rather than missing their trains. But, they can obviously use the ticket generating machines? But, let me tell you there are occasions when these machines are either out of service or the transaction takes time.
The last option is the booking application. This application too has problems with it. One of them is, the “Show Ticket” option of this app from where you can show a ticket to the TC. All of sudden, it shows that you do not have a ticket even though the person has a valid ticket. And this has personally happened to me more than once. Another issue with this app is of transactions. When a person makes a payment, the app does not show the ticket. The ticket only appears after a few hours.
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But, these days something different and shocking is happening in Mumbai local trains. There are many commuters who are travelling ticketless daily, and recently the Western Railways have collected fines from these commuters in lakhs.
According to a Hindustan Times report, the Western Railways caught 5,274 people travelling without valid tickets in just three days of fortress checking, earning revenue of ₹13.93 lakh in fines. The railway is now planning to conduct surveys and speak to passenger associations to address the issue.
We all should know that travelling without a ticket is not just a crime but also a social offense. But why is the public doing this even after knowing that they are committing a crime? The railway stations in Mumbai continuously announce everyday that travelling ticketless is a crime, but still people listen to it and ignore it.
Railways have now fined these ticketless travellers and are planning to tackle the issue, but why did it take this long? I live in Mumbai, and use the local trains to commute daily. After listening to all these recent events, I was able to weave where it is going wrong.
When a person has to commute through local trains in Mumbai, they have to stand in a long queue to buy a ticket. But, the railway has other options too to buy tickets. The stations are equipped with ticket generating machines, to buy tickets. There is a particular app dedicated for people to buy their ticket. So, the commuters have these three options to get their tickets, yet they choose to travel ticketless.
Let us first look at these three options and identify where it goes wrong from the railway's side.
As I said before, there are long queues to buy physical tickets. So, people travel ticketless rather than missing their trains. But, they can obviously use the ticket generating machines? But, let me tell you there are occasions when these machines are either out of service or the transaction takes time.
The last option is the booking application. This application too has problems with it. One of them is, the “Show Ticket” option of this app from where you can show a ticket to the TC. All of sudden, it shows that you do not have a ticket even though the person has a valid ticket. And this has personally happened to me more than once. Another issue with this app is of transactions. When a person makes a payment, the app does not show the ticket. The ticket only appears after a few hours.
#Mumbai #MumbaiLocalTrain #WesternRailways #Bandra #Churchgate #Dadar #Andheri #Borivali #Virar #ACTrain #MumbaiLocalTrains #MumbaiTrains #Maharashtra #MumbaiNews #WesternRailway
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00:00 Hello everyone this is Aminah Ansari welcome to SJW News English
00:04 The financial capital of India, Mumbai is home to people from different parts of India.
00:11 People come from all over country to make living in Mumbai.
00:14 This whole environment of daily lives of these people are dependent on none other than the
00:20 local trains of Mumbai. The public uses the local train daily to commute daily to work and back home.
00:27 There are many commuters who are travelling ticketless daily and recently the western
00:32 railways have collected fines from these commuters in lakhs. According to a Hindustan Times report,
00:38 the western railway caught 5274 people travelling without valid tickets in just three days,
00:45 earning revenue of Rs 13.93 lakh in fines. The railway is now planning to conduct surveys and
00:53 speak to the passenger association to address the issue. We all know that travelling without
00:59 a ticket is not just a crime but also a social offence. But why is the public doing this even
01:05 after knowing that they are committing a crime? The railway stations in Mumbai continuously
01:11 announce every day that travelling ticketless is a crime but still people listen to it and ignore
01:16 it. Railways have now fined these ticketless tabloids and are planning to tackle the issue.
01:22 But why did it take this long? I live in Mumbai and I use the local trains to commute daily.
01:28 After listening to all these recent events, I was able to weave where it was going wrong.
01:34 When a person has to commute through local train in Mumbai, they have to stand in a long queue to
01:39 buy a ticket. But the railway has other options too to buy the tickets. The stations are equipped
01:45 with ticket generating machines to buy tickets. There is a particular app dedicated for people
01:51 to buy their ticket. So the commuters have these three options to get their ticket. Yet,
01:57 they choose to travel ticketless. Let us first look at these three options and identify where
02:03 it goes wrong from the railway's side. As I said before, there are long queues to buy physical
02:09 tickets. So people travel ticketless rather than missing their trains. But they can obviously use
02:15 the ticket generating machines. But let me tell you there are occasions when these machines are
02:21 either out of service or the transaction takes time. The last option is a booking application.
02:27 This application too has problems with it. One of them is the show ticket option of the app
02:32 from where you can show the ticket to the TC. All of a sudden, it shows that you do not have
02:37 the ticket even though the person has a valid ticket. And this has personally happened to me
02:42 more than once. Another issue with this app is a transaction. When a person makes a payment,
02:49 the app does not show the ticket. The ticket only appears after a few hours. It is high time when
02:55 the railway has to take Mumbai local train issues seriously. Strict action against the ticketless
03:01 traveller works well. But the railway has to keep this ticket checking in continuity to make sure
03:07 that the people who are doing this learn a social etiquette of public transport travelling. The
03:12 public too has to understand that you cannot go against the law. If you have rights, then you have
03:19 duties too. The public should at least have the basic sense of travelling with a ticket after all.
03:25 Local train travel in Mumbai is one of the cheapest modes of transport which you can use to
03:30 travel to any part of the city. That's all for this news report. For more such news and updates,
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