Borivali rakes in maximum revenue for Western Railway

A RTI query has found that Borivali station rakes in maximum moolah among all suburban railway stations in Mumbai, with the highest number of tickets being sold.

Activist Anil Galgali got a reply from Western Railway (WR) that Borivali station rakes in nearly Rs 16,86,591 from ticket sales. Borivali has 2,87,196 commuters purchasing tickets i.e. no other station out of WR’s 36 stations sees as many tickets being purchased. “I think that these figures make trains headed to Borivali among the most crowded ones and are a testament of how much load the station takes per day,” he said.

From Churchgate to Dahanu, WR earned Rs 19,946,652 from a total 3,508,469 commuters purchasing tickets. Following suit in terms of adding to the railway kitty are stations like Nalasopara (Rs 1,352,587); Virar (Rs 1,333,733); Bhayandar (Rs 995,121); Vasai Road ('9Rs 34,007); Malad (Rs 930,898); Kandivali (Rs 929,175); Dadar Rs 890,606); Goregaon (Rs 839, 617); Bandra (Rs 755,846) and Churchgate (Rs 743,275).

Talking about how the number of accidents on WR can be decreased, Mr Galgali said, “I feel that train trips are very less in comparison to the passengers travelling every day on the western line and that if train trips are increased, the chances of accidents of passengers will reduce drastically.” WR had stated that they it earned Rs 12.4 crore in the last one year as fine collected from ticketless travellers.