Ballari Jn - Look around and enjoy the station. A sacred place where Mahatma Gandhi once spent 8 hours. - Vishwanath Joshi

No Ide.
As The Poll Question I'm not able to understand

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I mean if we want to go from LKO to JP amd the train run via BE-DLI-AWR but the shortest distance between LKO-JP is via CNB-AF the passanger who are travelling from directly JP-LKO than the fare dhould be based on via AF r I ute bcz this is not the passanger fault that train runs via DLI or run by BE-UMB -RE route.
This is only my personal opinion

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I would say it depends how he choose the route to travel. The fare Per / KM, according to the speed in each categories of train, and the increase can be made as per GDP/nation growth rate.

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That would be rather unfair to the railways as well. Unlike roads, railway routes cannot follow the shortest distance always. And running a train through a round about route is to provide more coverage and serve other passengers as well. So, indirectly the end-to-end passengers will be travelling through a longer route for the sake of other intermediate passengers and not due to some lapse or fault from the railways side. That way, going by a system of kilometer slabs, the passengers will not be grossly overcharged (compared to charging per kilometer for the displacement between the two cities).

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You are right . But I m only giving my opinion

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