Tamil Nadu Express - தங்களை அன்புடன் வரவேற்கிறது - Swaroop Kutti

In what is a recommendation that would go a long way in making rail travel safe, the Allahabad high court has recommended the railway board that the format for applying for a season ticket should have a declaration that in the event of the pass-holder's involvement in any offence under the IPC or the Railways Act, on platform or trains, the 'seasonal ticket will be cancelled and will not be reissued'. The high court recommendation in this regard clearly states that 'people enjoying concession under the railway rules are not supposed to violate the Railways Act'.
For years now, the sore point among security agencies was that while the railways issued identity cards to season pass-holders, which were valid for seven years,...
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the railways, despite its massive computer network, did nothing to create a database of the pass-holders.
While officials say that the need to take down the address of people will hugely impact the ticketing queues in the city, they agree that it will help in the long run. Currently the booking clerks manage to give out around three normal tickets every minute and a season pass in a minute-and-a-half. " Having everyone to give addresses, feeding them into the computer in a particular format will take some time. But yes, the ground reality is that the railways gets a database of millions of Mumbaikars, which can be used by security agencies to nab criminals," said a senior railway official.