Ticket scalping still on outside Ctg rail station
The ticket scalping in Chittagong Railway Station is gradually reducing due to setting up of closed-circuit (CC) cameras and regular monitoring in the station.
As a result, commuters are getting tickets from the counters more easily than the previous time. But the ticket scalping exists at other places in the city, alleged some tickets seekers.
Sources at the Chittagong railway station said 16 CC cameras and one video camera have been set up to check ticket scalping.
A six-member vigilance team is checking ticket counters and the station premises to stop the fraudulence.
Sources said a total of 47 A/C tickets and eight Shovon Chair tickets of Dhaka-bound “Mahanagar Godhuli” are kept at the station counter at 10:30am yesterday. Tickets for other trains from Chittagong city are also found at the counters.
“I have bought a Dhaka-bound “Mahanagar Godhuli” ticket for April 6 standing in the queue at the station counter and it take a little time,” Fazlul Haq told The Daily Star yesterday.
As the e-ticketing system has been re-scheduled and this service is not available from 9:00am to 11:00am, commuters easily get tickets at the counters, said a railway official.
The ticket scalping is reducing day by day due to the regular monitoring, said Mohammed Rokonuzzaman, divisional commercial officer (DCO) of the railway in Chittagong.
The DCO said commuters now are getting tickets not only first day of the opening day of advance ticket selling but also on the second day.
Sources said though the ticket scalping is reducing at the station, it is happening outside, including New Market, Reaz Uddin Bazar, BRTC Bus Terminal and other places near the station.
Babul Ahmed, a banker, yesterday bought a Dhaka-bound ticket for April 5 from a scalper at Reaz Uddin Bazar, paying Tk 400 though it price is Tk 150.
DCO of the railway Rokonuzzaman said, “Checking ticket scalping at the station is our duty, but how can we stop scalping at other places in the city?”
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