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September 2016
The flexi fare pricing of railway tickets in
three premium trains is on an "experimental basis", senior officials
of the Railway Ministry said on Thursday, as political parties criticised the
hike and demanded its roll back. The
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"Flexi fare pricing is on experimental
basis," a senior official of the Ministry told IANS requesting anonymity. The Total Investment & Insurance
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"We will check what is the impact of the
flexi fare pricing in the Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duranto express and then a
decision would be taken after study of the impact on passengers," the
official added.
The officer said that the three trains
together ferry only about .6 per cent of the total 2.3 crore passengers that the
Railways carries every day. The Total
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"We run about 12,000 passenger trains
everyday, but this flexi fare pricing is implemented only on 152 trains,"
the officer added. The Total Investment
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The officer also said the flexi pricing move
was based on the travel experience of passengers on select trains that are
highly patronised. "We couldn't have experimented it on any other trains
as it would have affected a number of people," the official added.
"We could not have implemented it on the
executive class too as the fares would have become comparable to air
fares," the officer said.
The officer said that the surge pricing would
also help stabilise the tatkal quota ticket prices, which earlier would be
higher under the premium tatkal quota.
The Railways on Wednesday announced to
implement the flexi fare pricing on the Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duranto express
trains from September 9. The Total
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