Railway has given great relief to the passengers and their accompanying people at 11 stations of Divisional Railway including Jabalpur. Now the platform ticket price will be Rs 20 instead of Rs 50. Railway had made the platform ticket expensive to prevent the unnecessary crowd from reaching the station in the corona pandemic, but in Bhopal, passengers still have to buy platform tickets for only Rs 50. At the same time, platform tickets cost Rs 10 from Jabalpur at stations such as Gwalior, Indore, Betul, Chhindwara, and Itarsi. Here, for two hours, you have to pay 30 rupees.
Vishwa Ranjan, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager of Jabalpur Railway Division, said the 11 main stations of the division, Jabalpur, Madan Mahal, Katni, Katni Mudwara, Maihar, Satna, Rewa, Sagar, Damoh, Narsinghpur, and Pipariya will now have to pay Rs 20 with platform tickets. . Previously, platform tickets for Jabalpur and Madanmahal were Rs 50-50 and for other stations Rs 30-30.
The platform ticket rate was increased to Rs 30 and Rs 50 with the intention of reducing the crowd at the stations in the second wave of the corona. As a result, people began to avoid unnecessary access to the stations. There was a financial loss to the Railways. At the same time, after the introduction of MEMU and passenger trains, as soon as regular ticket sales begin, instead of showing short-distance travel, people start taking tickets for local trains for Rs 20.
Railways have made it clear that anyone found checking out of the platform ticket will have to pay a fine of up to Rs 500. It is advised to enter the station only with the platform ticket Many times it may happen that if they are caught at the time of arrival of the long-distance train, then they may have to pay the amount of long-distance train travel, and it's fine as a passenger.
According to CPRO Rahul Jaipuria, the railways have been authorized to control the crowd on stations to DRM since 2015. The right is granted to adjust the rate from 10 rupees to 50 rupees. Ticket prices were increased in Covid to control unnecessary crowds at stations and to follow social distancing. Then the Railways had clarified that the price of platform tickets would be reduced if the cases of Covid were reduced.
Platform tickets are of great use. In an emergency, you can also travel by train with this ticket. In case of an emergency, if you have to travel by train, you can also travel by buying a platform ticket from the railway station. Provided that immediately after boarding the train, the ticket for the journey has to be purchased by contacting the TTE. Traveling with a platform ticket will attract a fine of Rs 250 and class-wise ticket fare. In the absence of a valid ticket, the platform ticket is also considered as proof that you have started the journey from a particular station. Otherwise, a ticket may have to be made for the train's starting station and destination.
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