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The Railway Protection Force (RPF), which is entrusted with the task of safeguarding railway property, rider areas, and the well-being of travellers, has helped 49 children reunite with their parents during the period of May.
According to South Western Railway (SWR), under Operation ‘NanheFaristheh’ - Rescuing Lost Children, RPF SWR played a pivotal relation successful rescue of 49 children (37 boys, 12 girls). . RPF rescued them and facilitated their reunion with their families with assistance of non-governmental organisations and the police.
Under ‘Operation Dignity’, 4 aged persons (3 male, 1 female) successful request of attraction and extortion were rescued, and handed implicit to their families aft owed verification.
Under the women centric ‘Meri Saheli’ Initiative, RPF unit ensured harmless question for azygous and unaccompanied pistillate passengers. Presently, 32 Splecial, Mail and Express trains are covered nether this initiative.
Intensive checks were conducted astatine assorted question agencies and locations crossed Karnataka and Goa arsenic portion of Operation ‘Uplabdh’ (cracking down connected touts) to guarantee just availability of bid tickets to genuine passengers and to curb achromatic marketing. During these operation, 37 touts were arrested successful 36 cases nether Section 143 of the Railways Act. A full of 49 unrecorded tickets valued astatine ₹1,53,,620 and 263 utilized tickets worthy ₹4,65,968 were seized.
Under Operation Satark, RPF detected 7 liquor cases, recovering 1,458 bottles (1309litres), consignments worthy ₹83,31,457, and handed implicit the aforesaid to the Excise Department.
Under Operation Narco, 8 cases were detected, resulting successful the seizure of 37 kg of ganja valued astatine ₹33.80 lakh, and 20 cartons containing 1,99,600 cigaret sticks of Korean marque valued ₹30 lakh.
On 63 occasions, RPF unit recovered items misplaced oregon near down by passengers, specified arsenic laptops, mobile phones, ornaments, and different idiosyncratic belongings valued astatine ₹50.34 lakh, and returned to the rightful owners.
The General Manager of SWR P. Ananth has lauded the enactment done by the RPF.
