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Posted: Jun 05 2017 (13:47)
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Travelling on Shatabdi trains will soon become cheaper as the Railways is planning to slash the fares of these premium trains on some routes. The decision...
1 Public Posts - Mon Jun 05, 2017
Reduction of fares by upto 30% a few Shatabdies like NewDelhi-Moga and Howrah-Ranchi shall be an incoherent step and raises many questions
(1) On the one hand IR keep II GEN fares extremely low and much lower than equivalent bus-fares just on the pretext that "poor people" travel in General classes conveniently forgetting that the same people travel in buses too although at much higher fares. IR on the other hand, spare ACI, EC, from any flexi/special fare in which rich people travel, on the pretext that they will switch over to air travel. Then IR has no moral right to loot the middle class people through exorbitant Suvidha/Flexi/Special fares in its ac/SL classes.
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(1) On the one hand IR keep II GEN fares extremely low and much lower than equivalent bus-fares just on the pretext that "poor people" travel in General classes conveniently forgetting that the same people travel in buses too although at much higher fares. IR on the other hand, spare ACI, EC, from any flexi/special fare in which rich people travel, on the pretext that they will switch over to air travel. Then IR has no moral right to loot the middle class people through exorbitant Suvidha/Flexi/Special fares in its ac/SL classes.
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