Railways is planning to cut down the prices of the elite trains like Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto. They are already reviewing the flexi- fare ticketing system which was introduced last year and resulted in 10% increase in the base fare of the tickets in these trains.
Nirmal Singh 3C Company says that there were rumors that the ministry was planning to increase the price of the other trains as well, but the railways has rubbished all such rumors and made it clear that there would be no further hike in the price of the tickets in fact they might even lower them a bit.
Nirmal Singh 3C Company says that after the flexi-fair system, Railways earned around ₹540 crore in less than a year time but the revenue is nothing as compared to the complaints that they got to hear from the passengers due to the unreasonable hike in the ticket prices. And this revenue was earned at the cost of the vacant seats. The ministry themselves said that so many of the seats were left vacant due to the extreme rates.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that the issue of the flexi fare system is in his notice and he thinks that the expected revenue targets can be and must be met without making it difficult and inconvenient for the people to pay.
Nirmal Singh 3C Company says that the scheme was launched on September 9 last year and was only applicable to the premium trains such as Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto, where the first 10% of the seats would be sold at the normal fare and then the fare would keep increasing by 10% with every 10% of the seat that is sold, with a ceiling of the rise to maximum 50%. However no change was made in the existing fare for 1AC and the EC classes. After seeing that so many seats were left vacant, railways started providing a 10% rebate on the seats that were left vacant after the preparation of the chart.
Nirmal Singh 3C Company says that the railways have proposed to increase the speed of around 700 trains as of November 1, 2017 which will result in converting 48 mail express trains to superfast and express.
The steps are being taken to ensure that all people get to travel easily with the railways and that too at a reasonable cost.
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