Sir,
I am a student of BITS-Pilani, doing my engineering at Goa. I happened to travel alone in Amaravathi exp (from vasco da gama to Howrah) on 9th April coach B1, berth 36.Having booked an e-ticket i was carrying my college issued id card as a proof of identification because i neither had a pancard nor a voter's id card. When i was asked to show my proof of identity by the Ticket Collector, Mr. BHAGAWAT, I showed my id card as i travelled with this same card thrice on an e-ticket. Mr. Bhagawat started abusing me for carrying an id card by a non-government organisation and harrased me saying that he would fine me around Rs.1800 (Rs.1694 (ticket) Rs.250 (fine)). As i was travelling alone, i had only Rs.500 with me. I neither had money nor had the documents mentioned above. So he said he would come back to me after collecting everyone's tickets and took away my ticket. Whenever he passed my coupe, he went on abusing me asking for a proof once, scolding me to read the e-ticket properly and so on. Having undergone this torture, i was called to a different coach by him via an attendent to talk about this issue. I was allowed to travel after a series of scoldings followed by pleadings.
I (on the behalf of students) would be very happy if college issued id-cards are allowed as a proof of identity during a travel on e-ticket.
I would prefer giving another example for the TC's behaviour. I boarded the train in Vasco-da-gama and found my coupe empty, by the time the train started moving. So i thought i would lay down. But the Ticket collector on asking the ticket scolded me saying that passengers who are alloted lower berths are not supposed to sleep from 0600 hrs to 2100 hrs. I tried convincing him by telling that there was no one yet there in my coupe and wouldn't cause trouble at all. Apart from preventing me from laying down i was abused when i had shown my id card as a proof of identification.
Is this the way TC's behave with the passengers?
Thank You
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