21 booking clerks working at various stations in the Tatanagar and Chakradharpur divisions of the Indian Railways will now be checking tickets of train passengers. The Chakradharpur division has trained these booking clerks and deployed them as ticket inspectors at various stations. This move is expected to increase revenue for the...
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railway in the form of fines. The railway is handing over ticket counters at smaller stations in the Chakradharpur division to agents, while reducing the number of counters at larger stations by introducing automatic ticket vending machines. This has led to the deployment of booking clerks in other revenue-generating departments like the parcel office, goods yard, and commercial department. Additionally, several booking clerks have become Commercial Inspectors (CIs) and Assistant Commercial Managers (ACMs) through promotion exams.