Indian Railways Increase Passenger fare w.e.f 22/01/2013

The Ministry of Railways has revised the  Passenger Fares w.e.f. 22.01.2013. Details of the fare revision are as under:-

S.N.	Class	Increase in Fare per Passenger Kilo Meter (PKM)	Minimum distance for charge
i	Second Class Ordinary (Suburban)	02 paise	No change (existing – 10 Kms)
ii	Second Class Ordinary (Non-Suburban)	03 paise	No change (existing – 10 Kms)
iii	Second Class	04 paise	50 kms
iv	Sleeper Class	06 paise	No change (existing – 200 Kms)
v	AC Chair Car	10 paise	150 kms
vi	AC 3-Tier	10 paise	300 kms
vii	First Class	03 paise	No change (existing – 100 Kms)
viii	AC 2 - Tier	06 paise	No change (existing – 300 Kms)
ix	AC First Class	10 paise	No change (existing – 300 Kms)

1. Minimum Fare: The Minimum fare chargeable will be Rs. 5.

2. Development Charge: On the revised basic fares which shall become effective from 22.01.2013, development charge shall not be leviable.

In the case of tickets already issued at pre-revised rates, The difference of revised fares and other charges on or after 22.01.2013 will be recovered either by TTEs on the trains or by the Booking/Reservation Offices before the commencement of journey by passengers. 

3. Fares of Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Garib Rath, Jan Shatabdi, Duronto, Rajya Rani and Yuva Expresses will similarly be revised .

THE Basic Fare, will be rounded off to the next higher multiple of five rupees, except that in cases where either ‘1’ or ‘6’ comes up as the last digit (i.e. in unit’s place) it will be rounded off to the immediately lower multiple of Rs. 5, i.e. Rs. 11.00, Rs. 21.00, Rs. 31.00 etc. would respectively become Rs. 10.00, Rs. 20.00, Rs. 30.00 etc. and Rs. 6.00, Rs. 16.00, Rs. 26.00 etc. would respectively become Rs. 5.00, Rs. 15.00 and Rs. 25.00 etc. and Fare values ending in Rs. 2, Rs. 3 or Rs. 4 would be getting rounded off to Rs. 5 and those ending in Rs. 7, Rs. 8, or Rs. 9 to Rs. 10 and so on and so forth.