RAIL FARES - INCREASE JUSTIFIED ?

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Now all specilal trains are run as suvidha or special fare trains where no concession is admissible besides dynamic fares or tatkal fares. Despite of all these railways not able to earn sufficiently means the loop holes have to be identified and rectified. more

Dec 25

JAYARAMAN A IYER

Already the railways earn a lot in tatkal, tatkal wl and premium tatkal. High tatkal quota is the root cause for corruption and touts. Because of high tatkal quota the availablity in General quota is less mostly less than 50 of total capacity. Again tatkal WL eats away the chances of General WL tickets. Hence if fare increase is decided tatkal quota should be reduced to one coach in SL and 10% max 10 seats in AC Then atleast every body will get ticket without difficulty and railways will also earn more on cancellation as cancellation charges are higher for confirmed tickets compared to WL/RAC more

Dec 25

DK Sarkar

I also travel by Air. But it depends on the exigencies/ convenience etc. Once we had travel by air, because our train ticket was 'automatically cancelled' for want of accommodation (Nagpur-Howrah 2AC Ticket - W/L 3,4 possibly), but other passengers were accommodated - seems to be in the mode illustrated by Mr. Anjan Dasgupta) more

Dec 25

DK Sarkar

I am a frequent rail traveler (approx. 10,000 km/yr individually and about 25,000 km/yr with family). We travel in all the classes (from 1AC to unreserved) - availability of reserved accommodation being the prime criteria. However, I have never seen any inspector/supervisor (during 60s' - used to be called 'flying checker/mobile checker' etc.). I have seen non- bona fide passengers in all classes. Families of big-wigs (Railways/Police etc.) are accommodated but wait listed passengers are denied vacancies. While e-ticket wait listed passengers tickets get automatically cancelled, passengers having lower class tickets get consideration! In sleeper classes/reserved seats classes non- bona fides command you to squeeze, and sometimes threaten that his/her father/brother/husband is a big gun in railways! more

Dec 25

Anjan Dasgupta (Retired project engineer and frequent traveller of railway)

Now a new trend started. TTE's are not allowed to book vacant seats in running train. Now they adopted a method to make their income double. They are carrying passenger having ordinary ticket up to their duty range and rotating the seat to two or three passengers and make their earning three times. Suppose a seat found empty from Howrah stn. TTE's duty upto khurda road. He is carrying passenger from howrah to kharagpur and kharagpur to bbsr. Thus he earns about Rs. 1000 in same seat. If those is not closely monitored then only hike of passenger fare will never be profitable to Railways. more

Nov 10

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