Friday, January 18, 2013

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.

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