A clear fraud going on by the Railway Administration!

Mafia Union had a monopoly in squads by manipulation?

Mafia Union is happy to dismantle the culture squad as they are re-establishing their hold on Southern Railway

Suresh Tripathi

Chennai: In Trivandrum also their authorities had started nominated squad TTEs, RPF and GRP into a team for ‘SEVA’ duty for deboarding irregular passengers from reserved coaches within Trivandrum division. Sources said, In fact, Trivandrum Division started this type of important service for the first time for the purpose.

But reliable sources of ‘Railway Samachar’ say that the above purpose is not liked by many in Southern Railway administration and Mafia Union who had a monopoly in squads by manipulation.

Normally, the overcrowding and irregular passengers to long destinations like Guwahati, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata etc are used for increasing ticket checking earnings by EFT preparation and regularisation. This caused heavy overcrowding.

The squad TTEs will complete their target earnings for the month by working only for two to three days by such regularisation and they can enjoy in their outside business for the rest of the days. They will fund the Mafia Union and will become their foot soldiers at short notice as hooligans to create trouble, said reliable sources.

Therefore, Mafia Union is happy to dismantle the culture squad as they are re-establishing their hold on Southern Railway administration and plan to put away inconvenient. Unscrupulous officers are happy as they can meet any targets and congratulate themselves.

Sources say this happens all along the train’s journey. This is a clear fraud by the railway administration to meet ticket checking earnings and put the reserved passengers to serious security threat and inconvenience as the irregular EFTs are issued without verifying the I’ds and genuinity of passengers.

Sources say that Chennai and Trivandrum Division were exceptions to this by making ‘Cultural Squad’ and ‘SEVA TEAM’.

Also, the ‘clone trains’ introduced from Kochuveli to Guwahati on Sundays, to provide extra accommodation has been discontinued.

The overcrowding in reserved coaches is so severe that the toilets are also full of passengers and Bonafide passengers cannot even go to toilets. The lady passengers suffer the most. Theft, molestation etc are common which are not even reported due to the hopeless condition.

Some cases are pending in the consumer dispute redressal fora. This is the reason for the culture squad.

But the Railway Administration is now interested in extra ticket checking earnings even by foul means playing with the security of Bonafide passengers and Mafia Union can have their hooligans back in squads. That’s the case here, said the reliable sources.

The long-term solution is to run extra trains/clone trains to East and proper additional Manning by extra TTEs and RPF to ensure comfortable journey to reserved passengers. The ethical aspect of ticket checking earnings needs to be given due importance. Total subservience to the Mafia Union is against passengers’ interest and also against the National interest.