Western Railway has ramped up efforts to ensure a smooth and comfortable travel experience for all legitimate passengers by intensifying ticket-checking drives across its services. These drives are aimed at curbing the issue of ticketless and irregular travel across Mumbai suburban local services, mail/express trains as well as passenger and holiday special trains.

Between April 2024 and January 2025, the ticket-checking teams, supervised by senior commercial officers, conducted a series of intensive checks. As a result, fines worth Rs 117.54 crore were recovered from ticketless travellers. Of this total, Rs 38.10 crore was specifically recovered from the Mumbai suburban section.