become costlier from today. The
hike in reservation fee and super
fast charges announced in the Rail
Budget comes into effect from
today. Though the railways had not
increased the basic passenger fare,
it had propsed increase of the
reservation fee, superfast and
Tatkal charges along with
cancellation and clerkage charges.
Besides the hike in passenger fares,
freight rate for all commodities is
set to go up by about 5.7 per cent
from today. The hike in service
charges on the tickets is expected
to mop up about Rs.880 Cr annually, while the freight rate revision will fetch Rs.4,200 Crore for the railways in the fiscal 2013-14.
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