HIGHLIGHTS OF RAILWAY BUDGET,
1997-98
How
the Railway Budget affects your Travel Plans
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Tariff proposals to be effective
from 01.04.1997
- No
increase in fares of
Second Class Ordinary and Second Class
Mail/Express.
- No
increase in fares of
monthly and quarterly Season Tickets for Second
Class and First Class for all distances.
- No
increase in platform
tickets charges.
- The
rates of platform tickets not
increased.
- 5%
increase in fares of
Sleeper Class (Mail/Express/Ordinary) for all
distances.
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- 10%
increase for all distances in respect of
the following classes of travel:
- Air
Conditioned First Class
- Air
Conditioned 2-Tier Sleeper
- Air
Conditioned 3-Tier Sleeper
- Air
Conditioned Chair Car, and
- First
Class (Mail/Express/Ordinary)
- The
fares of Shatabdi Expresses and Rajdhani Expresses
including August Kranti Expresses to be revised suitably.
- Catering
will be provided from 01.04.97 in Hazrat Nizamuddin -
Trivandrum, Hazrat Nizamuddin - Bangalore and Hazrat
Nizamuddin - Jammu Tawi Express. Charges will be included
in the fare itself as in other Rajdhani Expresses.
- A surcharge
of 20% on parcel and luggage rates in
superfast trains.
- No
increase in newspaper and magazine rates.
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The Indian Railway Budget
1997 - Highlights
Document released by
the Railway Ministry, Government of India, on 26th February,
1997.
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