aurangabad around 4400 cases of travellers without tickets and irregular passengers carrying unbooked luggage have been registered in the nanded division of the south central railway scr during the first month of the current fiscalthe railway authorities have intensified action against errant passengers at the very outset of the new financial year resulting in the recovery of rs 5776 lakh towards penaltythe drive against errant travellers has been intensified to curb the practice of ticketless and other unauthorised travelling in order to ensure comfortable journey for bonafide passengers the authorities saidearly this week the scr authorities carried out fortress check at aurangabad station on may 2 during which 416 travellers were caught without ticket while someothers were travelling illegally the scr collected a penalty of rs 185 lakh during a single day drive which was conducted under the supervision of senior divisional commercial manager neha ratnakardue to the high number of ticketless travelers top authorities have informed that further more intensive checks will be done to arrest ticketless and irregular travellers it was said nanded divisional railway manager a k sinha has appealed public to travel with proper ticket to avoid strict action passengers can use automatic ticket vendig machines provided at various stations to buy tickets besides other available platforms he said nanded division of the scr had carried out similar searches during last fiscal they caught over 152 lakh ticketless travellers in just 201617 more than 19000 compared to the previous year the scr genarated a revenue of rs 559 crore in march 2016 alone the authorities had collected an alltime high revenue of rs 5452 lakh a total of 11405 travellers were caught last month