The railway has increased the fare on short distance travel. The increased fare will be applicable on trains less than 3 percent. The reason behind increasing the fare by Indian Railways is that people should not go on short distance trains due to Covid. Due to this fare hike, those who set a distance of 30-40 km from the passenger train will be killed. Railways argue that this increase will be applicable only on tickets with 20-30 rupees fare.Significantly, a top railway official recently told that in the wake of the Kovid-19 crisis, the Western Railways lost about Rs 5,000 crore in revenue due to the reduction in the operation of passenger trains and traveling less people. Have to bear. Western Railway General Manager Alok Kansal told reporters at the local railway station, “Due to the Covid-19 crisis, we are losing Rs 5,000 crore annually in terms of revenue of passenger trains.” According to him, many people are still reluctant to travel by rail due to fear of Covid-19. The General Manager had told, “Of the passenger trains currently running in Western Railway, only 10 percent of the total seats are traveling in some trains.”He said that before the outbreak of Covid-19, Western Railway used to run around 300 passenger trains, but the government had stopped passenger trains across the country during March last year to prevent Covid-19. Kansal, however, said that the operations of passenger trains are now returning to track at a fast pace and this is expected to improve the fare revenue of Western Railway.
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