Guy Live Tweets About Corruption On Train, Gets The TTE Suspended Within Minutes

We all have travelled by trains and doing so has led to many ¡°friendly¡± and ¡°unfriendly¡± conversations with the TTE. He's the guy who checks our tickets and also the one who allots seats, if you don't have one. That said, at some point, we have always rested our hopes on TTE to help us fetch a berth.

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Recently, a man caught a TTE allotting seats after collecting money without issuing a receipt for it. Govind Narayan, a passenger on the Barmer-Kalka Express on Saturday noticed the TTE of the train doing this.

He saw him collecting Rs 15 from passengers in exchange of seat allotment, however, he did not give them a receipt for it. When Govind asked for the receipt, the TTE replied that it¡¯s a long journey and he shall give him the receipt on the way.

Govind could sense that the TTE had no intention of issuing receipts and decided to complain. He sent out a tweet to the Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Jodhpur.

General Manager@GMNWRailway i m in train14888 in S-6 m going BMR to BKN(Raj) TTE is takng extra chrg fr seat bt nt givng receipt #corruption

¡ª govind narayan (@gnkiradoo) September 10, 2016

And the results were almost instantaneous.

@gnkiradoo @RailMinIndia @sureshpprabhu @narendramodi action has been taken against the duty staff.

¡ª GM NWRailway (@GMNWRailway) September 10, 2016

The TTE was asked to get off the train at Merta station and the faith of railway passengers in the power of social media was once again strengthened.

¡°I could not see this happening. I knew about the procedure of tweeting to the Ministry of Railways so I chose to complain there,¡± Govind said.