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From Spitting To Throwing Wrappers: These Acts Can Now Cost You ₹1,000 On Indian Railways
The higher penalty applies to anyone throwing, dumping or leaving waste at railway stations, platforms or inside coaches, except at designated disposal points.
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That snack wrapper thrown out of a train window could now cost you ₹1,000. Indian Railways has doubled the fine for littering and other cleanliness violations at stations and on trains from Rs 500 to Rs 1,000. The change comes through a gazette notification issued on August 24, 2026, amending the Indian Railways (Penalties for Activities Affecting Cleanliness at Railway Premises) Rules, 2012.
The higher penalty applies to anyone throwing, dumping or leaving waste at railway stations, platforms or inside coaches, except at designated disposal points. The rules also cover a wider set of activities that affect hygiene.
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The rule applies to passengers and others using railway premises, including stations, platforms and train coaches. The move comes as the railways steps up efforts to improve cleanliness across its vast network.
What Can Get You A ₹1,000 Penalty?
Littering is the most obvious violation. Throwing, dumping or leaving waste inside train coaches, on platforms or elsewhere on railway premises, except at designated disposal points, can attract the penalty.
However, the list goes beyond discarded food packets and plastic bottles. Activities such as spitting, urinating, defecating, bathing, cooking and washing clothes or utensils in unauthorised areas can also violate the cleanliness rules. Feeding animals or birds, storing goods and defacing railway property can similarly lead to action under the revised provisions.
Writing slogans or messages and pasting posters on railway property without authorisation are also prohibited.
Under the amended rules, a person who fails to pay the ₹1,000 penalty may be produced before a competent court. The court can then impose a fine of up to ₹2,000.
The rules are not limited to passengers. Authorised vendors and hawkers operating at railway premises are also required to maintain cleanliness, including keeping waste collection bins and disposing of garbage at designated locations.
Travellers are advised to use the dustbins provided, dispose of waste only at marked spots, and avoid activities that breach the cleanliness rules. The revised penalties came into force from the date of publication in the Official Gazette and are now active across the Indian Railways system.
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