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Indian Railways fares: The Indian Railways is one of the world's largest organisations in terms of employees and caters to millions of people's transportation needs on a daily basis. Indian Railways is therefore, much in demand even though its financial health tends mostly towards the negative. However, here we are talking not about all of that, the Union Budget 2016 has already revealed most of the information (Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu's budget has kept passenger fares and freight rates unchanged. A slew of measures has been announced for travel comfort. But the operational efficiency has taken a beating even as concerns remain over raising money for future projects – this is crux of Rail Budget 2016.). Instead we are focussing on what passengers, the most crucial part of the entire process, are checking for the most, the Indian Railways fare chart:
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1. Indian Railways fares: The Railway fares will be same in case of all distances within that distance slab. Minimum distance for charge of 200 Km. in Sleeper Class will not be applicable in case of Sleeper coaches declared as unreserved coaches by Zonal Railways in notified trains and in specified sections. In such cases, actual fares as shown in the concerned column will be levied/charged.
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2. Indian Railways fares: All fares notified in this Coaching Tariff are Base Fares. All other miscellaneous charges like Reservation Fee, Superfast Charge, Catering Charge, Service Tax etc. wherever applicable will be levied additionally. Base fares for high speed trains like Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto, Garib Rath, Jan Shatabdi, Yuva etc, as given in this Coaching Tariff, are also exclusive of Reservation fee, Superfast Charge, Catering Charge, etc. These charges, wherever applicable, will be levied additionally. (Express photo)
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3. Indian Railways fares: Suburban fares shall be levied for journeys performed in the suburban sections only. Non-suburban fares shall apply in case of all other journeys.
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4. Indian Railways fares: As far as rounding-off of fares is concerned, fares of all classes except Second Class Ordinary (Suburban). Chargeable Fares, as obtained after adding Miscellaneous Charges like Reservation Fee, Supplementary charge for Superfast trains, Catering Charge, Service Tax etc. to the Basic Fare, will be rounded off to the next higher multiple of Rs. 5. Second Class (Suburban) Fares Chargeable Fares for Second Class Suburban passengers, as obtained after adding applicable miscellaneous charges like MUTP Surcharge (as and where applicable) etc. to the Basic Fare, is proposed to be rounded off to the next higher multiple of fi ve rupees, except that in cases where either '1' or '6' comes up as the last digit (i.e. in unit's place) it was be rounded off to the immediately lower multiple of rupees 5, i.e. 11.00, 21.00, 31.00, etc. would respectively become rupees 10.00, 20.00, 30.00, etc. and 6.00, 16.00, 26.00 etc. would respectively become rupees 5.00, 15.00, 25.00 etc. And, Fare values ending in rupees 2, 3 or 4 would be getting rounded off to rupees 5 and those ending in rupees 7, 8 or 9 to rupees 10 and so on and so forth.
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5. Indian Railways fares: Fares published in these tables are separately for the Peak and Lean seasons. 6.1 Peak and Lean seasons shall be as under: – Lean Seasons 1st February to 31st March; and 1st August to 31st August Peak Seasons 1st April to 31st July;and 1st September to 31st January. In so far as the “popular” trains’ segment is concerned, the peak period fares shall be applicable throughout the year in case of journeys undertaken in AC First and AC 2-Tier Classes.
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6. Indian Railways fares: The point-to-point fares for all pairs of stations, including intermediate to intermediate stations, in case of Shatabdi, Jan Shatabdi, Rajdhani and Duronto sets of trains shall be notified by the Zonal Railways. (PTI)
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7. Indian Railways fares: Children under 5 years of age will be carried free of charge. Children above the age of 5 years and under 12 years of age will be charged at half the corresponding adult fare. After adding applicable miscellaneous charges, if any, this Fare will be rounded-off to the next higher multiple of Rs.5 in case of all classes other than Second (Suburban);in the case of Second Suburban, rounding-off principle stipulated in Para 6.2 above shall apply. In case of Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto and Jan Shatabdi trains the existing methodology of computing concessions and in terms of CC 66 of 2012. (AP)
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8. Indian Railways fares: Children under 5 years of age will be provided food in Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express trains without any charge. (Reuters)
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9. Indian Railways fares: Bed-rolls will be supplied to passengers in AC First Class, AC 2-Tier and AC 3-Tier Classes in all trains, except Garib Rath Express trains without any additional charge. Bed-rolls in Garib Rath Express trains and in Sleeper Class of Mixed Duronto Express trains will be supplied to passengers on demand, on payment of stipulated charges. (Express Photo)
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10. Indian Railways fares: Quarterly Season Tickets (QST) fares will be 2.7 times the Monthly Season Tickets (MST) fares. Season Tickets beyond 150 km will be issued only over sections where this facility was being enjoyed prior to 1.4.1951.(Reuters)
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