C
Commercialpedia Indian Railways commercial circulars and policies

Steps to prevent irregularities in issuing of tickets through Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) of Indian Railways- reg

CC no. 09 of 2011
Circularuts

No official Railway Board PDF has been traced for this entry yet. The text below was read from the document held in the library.

Circular numberCC no. 09 of 2011
File numberNo. 2017/TG-1/10/P/UTS
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicuts

Summary

Steps to prevent irregularities in issuing of tickets through Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) of Indian Railways- reg Sub: Steps to prevent irregularities in issuing of tickets through

Text of the circular

दक्षिण मध्य रेलवे // SOUTH CENTRAL RAILWAY

विजयवाडा मंडल // VIJAYAWADA DIVISION
मं.रे.प्र.का कार्यालय, वाणिज्य विभाग, विजयवाडा

Office of the Divisional Railway Manager,
Commercial Branch,
Vijayawada.

To

All SMRs/CBSRs/CCSRs over BZA Division

Sub: Steps to prevent irregularities in issuing of tickets through
Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) of Indian Railways- reg.

Ref: 1. Letter No. 2017/TG-1/10/P/UTS fraud/Pt- dated 16.09.2022 .
2. Dy.CCM/PM letter No. C./CR/ Ticket/565/UTS/Sep'2022
dated 20.09.2022.

REKKKK

A copy of Railway Board’s letter communicated by Zonal Office vide
references made above, regarding instructions to prevent irregularities in the issue —
tickets through Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) is enclosed herewith for reference
and for necessary action.

Encl.: as above
WY
en
(Md_Ati n)
ACM/I/BZA
for Sr.DCM/BZA

Copy All Section 0015 for information and necessary action at your end.

2017/TG-1/10/P/UTSFruad/Pt. /e-file DY. ८८८७ | Pm
1/3051577/2022 U TG Alene
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (भारत सरकार) — fl. Awe oh
_ MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (ver मंतालय) - धन्य
RAILWAY BOARD (रेलवे até)
one — Pe ww—fpe
No. 2017/TG-I/10/P/UTS fraud/Pt. New Delhi, dated 16.09.2022 Cory:
The General Managers,
All Zonal Railways. L ।
‘9 भर

Sub: Steps to prevent irregularities in issuing of tickets
through Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) of Indian
Railways.

Ref: This office letters of even no. 09.04.2018 &
31.07.2017 and CC no. 09 of 2011 & CC no. 12 of 2009.

Instructions regarding prevention of probable irregularities in
issuing of tickets through UTS counters of Indian Railways or
through authorized ticketing agents like JTBS (Jan Sadharan Ticket
Booking Sewak) have been issued from time to time vide letters é
referred to above. Besides, in the recently issued STBA scheme (vide ;
CC no. 04 of 2022) also, provisions for prevention of probable misuse
have been incorporated. This notwithstanding, a case of irregularity by
STBA in issuing of tickets through UTS has come to notice.

2. The issue has been examined and it is desired that with a view to
monitor issuing of tickets through UTS and to prevent probable misuse
in UTS, the prescribed guidelines including the inbuilt checks
mentioned in instructions referred to above should be strictly followed
by staff of all departments. Special emphasis should however, be given
on the following:-

i. Misprinted tickets should not be issued by manually writing journey
details on it and countersigning it.
ii. Special cancellation/NI of tickets by STBA should only be allowed
in rare cases, only after due examination.
iii. ROPD and regular returns of all stations should be sent and CMIs
. should check the same on regular basis. ,
iv. Supervisor/In charge of booking office should check NI register
daily.
v. a cases of Non-Issue (NI) of high value tickets by a

2017/TG-1710/P/UTSFruad,; Pt. /e-file

(7305187772022

particular booking operator should be reported by the
supervisor/staff entrusted with the checking of the NI statement at
the location. .

vi. Enquiry of any irregularity in issuing of unreserved tickets by any
authorized agents should be conducted by a committee comprising
officers of Accounts and Commercial Departments. The committee
should also suggest the system improvement/procedural changes to
prevent recurrence of such frauds.

vii. Refund on cancellation of hand written tickets should be allowed
only on exceptional cases only in exceptional cases with the
approval of CBS. A record of such approval will be kept for
inspection by TIAs and Sectional Commercial Inspectors. This
record will also be countersigned by ACMs on periodical basis.

viii. The provisions contained in Para 308 of Manual for Inspection of
Station Accounts relating to checks on UTS tickets should be
followed.

ix. CCTV cameras should be installed in booking offices to keep a
check on the errant and to enhance the level of accountability with
monitoring and alert generation from a central location.

3. Necessary inst

Extract shown above; the full text is available in the search app.

Related circulars

Search the whole library

Open this circular in the search app · Search all 4,025 documents