Title - SPITTING IN RAILWAY PREMISES IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED

In compliance to the Gazette Notification of 26th November 2012 and as per the Penalties for activities affecting cleanliness at Railway premises of Indian Railways Rule 2012, East Coast Railway (ECoR) is carrying out anti-spitting awareness drive in different stations under its jurisdiction with immediate effect. According to the Railway Act, anyone who spits o­n railway premises is liable to pay fine.This type of activities will be punishable and will be slaped with 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.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.
Authorised Vendors/Hawkers have been instructed to make necessary arrangements to keep the containers or waste basket for collecting litter and proper disposal of its contents. Contravenes any of the provisions of these rules or fails to comply with such provisions shall be punished with a fine up to Rs. 500/-.
Station Managers, Ticket Collectors of Commercial Department or equivalent rank of Operating Department, officials authorized by Railway Administration for the purpose of implementing these rules have been authorized to collect penalties.
All station managers have been instructed to maintain cleanliness at Station premises and would be accountable if any station is found unclean. They have been authorised to slap fine as per the above rate.