a move that may well rubrailway minister Mamata Banerjee the wrong way, the Planning Commission hasrevived a proposal to set up a tariff regulatory authority for the state-runtransport network that is aimed at making tariffs less susceptible to politicalwhims.With the Trinamool Congress chief portraying herself as achampion of ‘aam aadmi’, keeping an eye on assembly elections inWest Bengal, the plan...
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Railways, Shri Lalu Prasad has announced reduction in passenger fares of various classes while introducing the Railway Budget for 2008-09 in the Lok Sabha today.There will be a reduction of one rupee in the second-class fares of up to rupees fifty for non-suburban mail/express and ordinary passenger trains. The second-class fares of all mail/express and ordinary trains will be reduced by 5% for the...
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India!Several new concessions have been announced for rail travel. These include extension of the scheme of free monthly season tickets for students, concession for senior lady citizens, concession for Ashok Chakra Awardees and for AIDS affected persons.Extended concessions for students include free monthly season tickets for girl students up to graduation and for boy students up to 12th standard....
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First there was an old Delhi Transport Corporation bus fare. Then the Delhi Government introduced a new one.Hot on its heels came a revised fare taking into consideration the burden of the hike on the common man.A friend who travelled by a DTC bus the other day overheard a passenger asking the conductor the distance between Dhaula Kuan and Talkatora Road so that she could pay the right amount.The conductor...
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About 70% of rail fares in Scotland are to be frozen or cut from January, the rail operator has announced.First ScotRail said off-peak returns, standard season tickets and all fares in Strathclyde would not rise in price.But many unregulated fares - including first class fares, anytime returns, off-peak day returns and some fares outside Strathclyde - would rise by 3%.A Passenger group welcomed the...
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Dinesh A Keskar, who heads the Indian operation of Seattle-based aerospace company Boeing, feels the wide gap between actual fare and the breakeven fare in the domestic market is closing and the two will meet next quarter.This, along with climbing air passenger traffic over the last few months, will lead to "sustainable and profitable growth" for the Indian carriers, which have accumulated huge losses...
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drivers in parts of Essex have called off a 24-hour strike due to go ahead in a row over pay.The South Essex branch of the Unite union cancelled the strike action in order to re-ballot First Essex drivers over a pay deal.First Group said it would not be giving workers a rise this year, but has now offered a 2.5% increase next year.Drivers in the north of the county are going ahead with the strike as...
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cabinet on Tuesday extended the first slab of the new bus fare structure from three to four kilometres, giving relief to a large number of commuters.That means, commuters paying the minimum fare of Rs 5 can now travel up to four kilometres instead of three.The move is expected to benefit almost four lakh passengers. DTC officials said about 46 per cent of over eight lakh bus passengers undertake short...
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three days of relief, cost of travelling by public transport is finally going up from Wednesday.After a notification from the lieutenant-governor, increased bus fares have become effective in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and blueline buses.The Delhi cabinet had approved a fare hike of 70 per cent in DTC and blueline buses on October 26. The new fare structure was to come into effect from November...
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Private carrier Jet Airways on Wednesday launched a service to enablepassengers learn of the lowest prevailing fares on its network from mobilephones on any given day of travel.Passengers can send short textmessages (SMS) to get the lowest fares available at a given time and sector onjetairways.com.The SMS will have to be sent in the 'LFSorigin-destination-date' format to 56388 (for instance, LFS BOM...
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