NFR Intensifies Ticket Checking Drives to Curb Ticketless and Irregular Travel on Trains

 Guwahati, 27^th August, 2026:

Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has recorded a remarkable improvement in its ticket checking drives during July 2026, reflecting its continued commitment towards ensuring transparent ticketing practices, curbing ticketless travel and providing a fair travel environment for genuine passengers. Intensive ticket checking drives conducted across stations and trains throughout the zone resulted in the detection of 76,989 passengers travelling without tickets or with irregular tickets during the month.

The sustained enforcement efforts, led towards ensuring proper ticketing system during train journeys. Such drives also led to realization of fines & charges collected from unauthorised travellers that amounted to Rs 10.95 crore during July 2026. Out of the total detections, 55,988 passengers were found travelling without tickets and were fined with Rs 08.97 crore towards fare and excess charges. Also, 21,001 passengers were detected travelling with irregular tickets, thus leading to Rs 1.98 crore as fines. In addition, NFR realized Rs 67.89 lakh through non-penalty cases during the month, while luggage checking cases detected Rs. 1.38 lakh fines thus discouraging such practices and ensuring compliance with railway luggage booking rules.

The success of such drives is eventually supported by 313 intensive ticket checking drives conducted across the zone during the month of July 2026. This drive promotes awareness among railway passengers in the near future. In addition, ticket checking staff covered 2,344 trains, during the month, demonstrating NFR's enhanced focus on vigilance ensuring proper revenue collection.

The cumulative drives carried out till July of 2026-27 has also been encouraging towards curbing ticketing malpractices. From April to July 2026, NFR detected 4,14,796 cases of ticketless and irregular travel, resulting Rs 50.57 crore as fines through fare and excess charges.

These achievements underscore the dedicated efforts of NFR's Commercial Department, ticket checking staff and field officials, who have been conducting regular surprise inspections and special drives to discourage ticketless and irregular travel. Northeast Frontier Railway once again appeals to passengers to travel only with valid tickets, carry proper travel authority and book excess luggage as per Railway rules. Such cooperation will help ensure a safe, transparent and comfortable travel experience for all passengers while strengthening the efficiency and financial sustainability of railway operations.