Ludhiana, May 23 -- To crack down on travel without tickets, the Ferozepur division of the Railways carried out a summer special ticket checking campaign across the division from April 22 to May 21, penalising over 47,000 passengers and collecting over 3.21 crores in fines.

Led by senior divisional commercial manager (Sr DCM) Paramdeep Singh Saini, the campaign besides checking ticketless passengers also aimed at controlling extra crowds. During this special ticket checking campaign, surprise checks were conducted every day by forming teams under the leadership of various officers/supervisors.

Ticket checking was done in the main lines. Intensive ticket checking campaign was conducted on Jalandhar-Amritsar, Ferozepur-Bathinda, Ludhiana-...