Darjeeling Mail - উত্তরবঙ্গের ঐতিহ্য - Joydeep Roy

The fares for these shatabdi type trains to Surat from Bandra / Vasai Rd are very very high. There is distortion in fare structure within these train also.
The fare from Vasai Rd to Surat is 370/- as against fare of Rs. 410/- from Virar to Surat in this spl train starting from Bandra.
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to Surat (in Bandra-Surat Shatabdi) >> Rs. 410/-
Virar to Surat (in Vasai Rd -Surat Shatabdi) >> Rs. 365/-
Vasai Rd to Surat (in Vasai Rd - Surat Shatabdi) >> Rs. 370/-
Who will spend such exhorbitant amount ? Are there any food / snakcs facilities provided in the train like in Shatabdi .
From all counts, the fare structure would go against the favorable response of the train and in this one month experimetal period only the Rly would incur revenue loss for low occupancy and would eventually be closed after one month period and seems that they will not be regularised at all.
These short distance trains would be converted into Jan Shatabdis so more passengers can take lower fare benefit for the purpose of travel.
WR ought to have fixed fares at least in comparison to Shatabdi train fare structure and also exclude cost of all services which are provided in Shatabdis and would not be provided to that extent in these trains.
Only emergency passengers would take this train and not the public at large.

The fare structure of this train is made out to be uncomparable at all.
The duronto Mum-Ahd 491 kms - AC sleeper for 6.45 min journey charge is only Rs. 540/- (3AC) and Rs. 490/- for 3AC-Economy.
How come the fare is Rs. 465/- for 252 kms only - just for a chair car seat for 3.30 min journey.
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public announcement made by the WR seems to suggest different scenerio. It suggests that fare are lower than Rajdhani / Shatabdi and they are in line of other super fast trains. Where is it ?
There seems to have taken place gross blunder in fixing fares.
The WR officials seem to have skipped the basics of rly fare system and just fixed the ad-hoc / lump sum fare for these two trains. The fares are completely the fancy and imaginations of the WR officials. Why can't Surat Rly Station Master take up the matter with higher officials at Mumbai HQ ? There is going to be infant death of this type much needed service just because of high commercial angle in setting up the fares.
All Surat, Vasai Road, Bandra Station Masters should submit representation to the WR Churchgate HQ office and this basic anomaly in fares should be immediately corrected. It seems that IR officials / Rly Ministry are not aware of this anomaly. The passengers should submit the signature sheets to the respecive station masters with a request to forward the same to the WR HQ / IR Delhi Ministry.
Requesting WR officials for the logic / reasons in fixing high fares for these trains - to be quickly informed via this forum.