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Railways slashes AC fares in 5 trains from Karnataka
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SME Times News Bureau | 13 Aug, 2018
To encourage more passengers to travel in air-conditioned (AC) coaches
or chair cars, the South Western Railway (SWR) has slashed fares in 5
express trains originating from Bengaluru, Gadag and Mysuru in
Karnataka, said an official on Saturday.
"By reducing AC chair
car fare in Shatabdi Express between Mysuru and Chennai via Bengaluru,
we got more number of passengers travel in the superfast train than bus
or flight", an SWR spokesperson told IANS.
Impressed by the
response to lower fare in Shatabdi, leading to higher occupancy, the
zonal railway has lowered AC fare in Bengaluru's Yesvantpur-Hubballi
weekly express to Rs 590 from Rs 735.
"The response was
encouraging when we introduced the lower fare in the weekly express for
the first time a week ago (August 4)," said the official.
The AC
fare in Gadag-Mumbai express has been reduced to Rs 435 from Rs 495 with
effect from November 11 up to Solapur in western Maharashtra after
Kalburagi in northwest Karnataka.
Similarly, AC fare in
Mysuru-Shirdi weekly express will be Rs 260 instead of Rs 495 between
Mysuru and Bengaluru from December 3.
Three AC fare in Yesvantpur-Bikaner Express between Bengaluru and Hubballi will be Rs 590 instead of Rs 735 from November 30.
Three AC fare in Yesvantpur-Secunderabad Express will be lower at Rs 305 from Rs 345 from November 22.
"The
fares have been slashed as part of the dynamic fare fixing based on
traffic pattern than on demand-supply ratio," added the official.
The
Railway Board has also directed other zonal railways to adopt the SWR
dynamic fare fixing on passenger traffic model in select trains to
enable more people travel in trains.
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