MINISTER OF RAILWAYS(KUMARI MAMATA BANERJEE)
(a) to (c): A Statement is laid on the Table of the Sabha.
STATEMENT referred to in reply to parts (a) to (c) of Starred Question No.7 by Shri Rudra Madhab
Ray AND SHRI Brijbhushan Sharan Singh to be answered in Lok Sabha on 02.07.2009 regarding Menace
of touts.
(a): In the course of internal checks, some cases of touts/anti-social elements purchasing
tickets in fictitious names have come to notice.
(b): The number of cases of passengers travelling on transferred tickets detected are as
under:
Year No. of transferred ticket cases detected.
2006-07 16404
2007-08 20298
2008-09 20240
2009-10(upto May,09) 4226
(c): Action taken to prevent such activities include
(i) intensive checks conducted by
Commercial and Vigilance Departments at reservation offices, stations and in trains. During the
last one year i.e. 2008-09, and the current year, 2009-10 (upto May, 09), 2521 and 298 touts
respectively were apprehended and prosecuted;
(ii) campaigns to educate the public to desist from
purchasing tickets from unauthorized persons;
(iii) bridging the demand-supply gap through running
special trains, introducing new trains, augmenting existing trains, etc.; and
(iv) providing the
facility of e-ticketing for easier access to booking of reserved tickets.