Sapt Kranti Express: Ruling the tracks with EMD Power - Keshav Singh

ECoR DRIVE ON CLEANLINESS
9435 PERSONS FINED & RUPEES 621400 COLLECTED
East Coast Railway has taken a massive awareness campaign o­n cleanliness and also imposed fine for the violations. During the cleanliness and anti-spitting drive in ECoR jurisdiction, 9435 persons have been fined so far for spitting and littering in Railway premises. An amount of Rupees 6, 219, 400/-have been collected as fine.
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and littering entails a fine of Rs. 100/- at ‘A1’ Class Stations like Bhubaneswar, Puri and Visakhapatnam, Rs. 50/- at ‘A’ Class Stations like Bhadrak, Brahmapur, Cuttack, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Khurda Road, Palasa, Rayagada, Srikakulam Road, Vizianagaram and Sambalpur and Rs. 30/- will be charged at rest of the stations under East Coast Railway jurisdiction. The fine may be doubled shortly in a view to stop spitting and littering and can be enhanced upto Rupees 500/-.
In the new Rule 2012 of Indian Railways, no person shall throw or deposit litter in any occupied and unoccupied railway premises or the carriage in authorized places or cook, bath, spit, urinate, defecate, feed animals/birds, repair or wash vehicles, washing utensils/clothes or any other objects or keep any type of storage in any railway premises or paste and put up any posture or write and draw anything in any compartment, carriage of railways, premises thereof without any lawful authority or indulge in defacing railway property in station buildings, platforms, railway tracks and other property belonging to railways including trains shall be punished and will be imposed with fine.