Authorized access to Platforms - Addl Inputs
Below are the key solutions as outlined by you to enable only authorized access to station platforms. Kindly review and if you have any additional specific inputs, please share.
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Authorized access to station platforms – Solutions
1. Railway and platform tickets should be printed with barcodes
2. Automatic entry machines like the ones used at metro stations should be installed on each entry
3. These machines should allow entry only when presented with a barcoded ticket
4. RPF personnel should be placed at different entry points
5. Getting on to a platform without a travel or platform ticket should be made a punishable offence
6. Offenders should be fined on the spot and repeat offenders should be barred from traveling in trains for a month
7. CCTV cameras should be installed at different places on the station to keep an eye on the happenings real-time
8. A team of 3 RPF personnel should be assigned on dedicated basis to the CCTV station so that any offenders could immediately be dealt with
9. Baggage limits should be set per passenger by railways
10. A list of ‘not allowed’ items should be prominently displayed on the station and also printed on tickets
11. Entry from track or either side of platform should be banned by putting grills etc.
12. TTEs should be diligently doing spot checking for tickets on every station.
13. If an offender does not have money to pay TTE, their Govt id (if available) and mobile phone must be confiscated. more
We look forward to your inputs!
Authorized access to station platforms – Solutions
1. Railway and platform tickets should be printed with barcodes
2. Automatic entry machines like the ones used at metro stations should be installed on each entry
3. These machines should allow entry only when presented with a barcoded ticket
4. RPF personnel should be placed at different entry points
5. Getting on to a platform without a travel or platform ticket should be made a punishable offence
6. Offenders should be fined on the spot and repeat offenders should be barred from traveling in trains for a month
7. CCTV cameras should be installed at different places on the station to keep an eye on the happenings real-time
8. A team of 3 RPF personnel should be assigned on dedicated basis to the CCTV station so that any offenders could immediately be dealt with
9. Baggage limits should be set per passenger by railways
10. A list of ‘not allowed’ items should be prominently displayed on the station and also printed on tickets
11. Entry from track or either side of platform should be banned by putting grills etc.
12. TTEs should be diligently doing spot checking for tickets on every station.
13. If an offender does not have money to pay TTE, their Govt id (if available) and mobile phone must be confiscated. more
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Proposal may be feasible for big and important stations in cities or metros. Not feasible for wayside small stations where passenger trains like DMU, MEMU and long distance passengers stops. more
Jan 07
Why not make smart card money be provided at all Railway stations to travelers against thefts. more
Jan 07
it is fine but please also print the list of valid ID for travel on the back of reserved tickets / with e ticket print out. i have seen TTE and people haggling for this more
Nov 29
Point No. 5 is not helpful. It encourages police to threaten common public and bribery. Note that common people are stakeholders and do not require any aggression by the police. Platform tickets and their machines are a big waste, environmental hazard, and cannot track entry / exit of people. These projects are to make few rick industrialists richer, and to harass 99.99% of common travelling public. Point No. 6 is not helpful. If you charge people, have the courtesy to provide quick, efficient and timely service. In Japan, Bullet train service apologized for reaching 20 seconds in advance. These bullet train systems and processes are so mature already, and we are still in the dark ages, having no plans of scaling up. Let us stop groping in the dark. Platform tickets are a big waste, environmental hazard, and cannot track entry / exit of people. Point No. 13 is not helpful. Encourage quicker movement of people. Common public do not have the time to indulfe police and RPF. Allow quick movement of public. Metro trains in Bangalore must be provided every 10 seconds, and not every 15 minutes, with 6 coaches in each train. more
Nov 24
Point No.13 is incomplete in itself. It is not said as to what to do if the concerned does not have an Id or a mobile phone either. I afraid, implementation of the other suggestions will merely become slogan like during the course of time. For example, our station(Raipur) is equipped with a x-ray screening machine at one of the entry points and a police personnel is also seen sitting besides it remaining always busy with his smart phone. But rarely the luggage of the passengers are screened nor they are using the specified entry point to enter into the platform, not even they are asked to do so, instead, the 'exit' gate is used to enter the platform. Incidentally, the screening machine is installed for Platform No. one and those want to use the lift to reach other platforms, which have other entry gates too with no security arrangements. So I am not at all optimistic of any improvement out of the above suggestions. more
Nov 21
