Title - 2,040 fined by Railways

As many as 2040 persons have been fined for spitting and littering at Railway premises during the cleanliness and anti-spitting drive by East Coast Railway over it’s jurisdiction in less than a month. In the process, ECoR has collected fine of Rs. 1.28 lakh from the violator. ECoR said it was also considering enhancing the fine to double, to stop spitting and littering in Railway premises against the rate fixed earlier. Now spitting and littering will entail a fine of Rs. 100 at ‘A1’ Class Stations like Bhubaneswar, Puri and Visakhapatnam and Rs. 50 at ‘A’ Class Stations like Bhadrak, Brahmapur, Cuttack, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Khurda Road, Palasa, Rayagada, Srikakulam Road, Vizianagaram and Sambalpur.