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Checking of tickets during nighttime in reserved coaches

Commercial Circular No. 11 of 2017 · 2017-04-05
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 11 of 2017
File numberNo. 2010/TG-V/72/P/01
Date2017-04-05
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicticket-checking
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Checking of tickets during nighttime in reserved coaches ii, In case of reserved passengers tickets should be checked initially

Text of the circular

= cA Government of India (Bharat Sarkar)
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(Railway Board)

No. 2010/TG-V/72/P/01 New Delhi, dated 37.01.2017
Chief Commercial Managers, .
All Zonal Railways.

(Commercial Circular No. 11 of 2017)

Sub: Checking of tickets during nighttime in reserved coaches.

Please refer to this office letter of even No. dated 25.08.2010
(Commercial Circular No. 78 of 2010) on the subject quoted above. The
matter has been reviewed and the modified instructions on this account are as
under:-

i. Checking staff should be suitably instructed that tickets in reserved
coaches should normally be checked between 0600 hours and 2200
hours

ii, In case of reserved passengers tickets should be checked initially
after passengers board the trains to begin their journey

iii, Bonafide. reserved passengers whose tickets have already been
examined and verified should not be disturbed between 2200 hours
and 0600 hours without a valid reason. However, since the overall
responsibility of not permitting any unauthorised passenger in the
coach lies with the ticket checking staff, if any unauthorised

passenger is found in the coach, this provision cannot be taken as a -

plea for the same

iv. Checks can also be made between 2200 hours and 0600 hours in the
following circumstances:~

a) In case where train departs from originating station on or after
2200 hours

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Reserved coaches can also be checked between 2200 hours and
0600 hours in case Vigilance Department have any doubt/have
sourced information about some suspicious activity/unauthorized
carrying of passengers. It may, however, be ensured that it should
be done with the least inconvenience to the passengers.

It is also clarified that in the year 2010 the last circular No. issued was

66 and the No. 78 to the Circular referred to above was given inadvertently
and was not uploaded on the website. However, this circular has been

uploaded on the website with the remarks that no circular between 67 and 7 7
were issued in 2010. . . .

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CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways.

ADG/PR, EDVT, DVT, Railway Board.
MD/IRCTC, Bank of Baroda Building, Parliament Street, New Delhi.

Dy. Comptroller & Auditor General of India (Railways), Room No. 224,
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi. )

FA&CAO of Indian Railways.

Principal Director of Audit, all Indian Railways.

General Manager/PRS-I, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. .

Director General, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial Railway
Staff College, Vadodara. oO

The Principals, Zonal Training Centers, Central Railway, Bhusaval,
Eastern Railway, Dhanbad, Northern Railway, Chandausi, NE Railway,
Muzaffarpur, NF Railway, Alipurduar, Southern Railway, Trichy, South
Central Railway, Maula Alt, SE Railway, Sini, Western. Railway,
Udaipur. .
Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management, Hardoi
Bypass Road, Manak Nagar, Luknow-226001
General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR), 3,
Chelmsford Road, New Delhi, .

General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation (AIRF), 4, State
Entry Road, New Delhi.

Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA),
Room No.370, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

Secretary General, Indian Railway Promotee Officers Federation :
(IRPOF), Room No, 268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

Secretary General, All India, RPF Association, Room No.256-D, Rail
Bhawan, New Delhi.

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