Indian Railways subsidized passenger travel with Rs 60,466 crore in FY 2023-24. This covers 45% of the travel cost. Rail fares were rationa...

Indian Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has stated that passengers will have to pay high fares during festivals due to the absence of a p...

The minister said concessions on top of this subsidy are still being provided to many categories such as divyangjans, students and patients...

It is also in the process of setting up a website on which it will update realtime, not only the money saved by the railways, but also the ...

5.67 lakh senior citizens gave up 100 per cent of their concession in these four months while 5.81 lakh such passengers gave up 50 per cent...

Under the scheme launched last year, senior citizens had the option to either avail the full concession provided to them on rail tickets or...

The Railways bears 43 per cent of the cost of train fare even as the state-run transporter incurs a loss of about Rs 30,000 crore a year in...

The railways plans to launch the scheme next month. To begin with, railways will offer two "slabs" of subsidy surrender — 50% and 100% of t...

The move has been suggested by Niti Aayog, the government’s think tank, as part of strategy to reduce the rail network’s huge subsidy burde...

Indian Railway recovers only 57 per cent of the cost of travel on an average in non-suburban service and 36 per cent in the suburban segmen...

The political cost of doing away with the huge subsidy on passenger fares has prevented the transporter from tinkering with tariff over the...

A passenger has to shell out Rs 85, which is less than the cost of one kg of apples, for travelling to Agra from Delhi in the general class.

The move by the Narendra Modi-led government last week to raise passenger fares was met by sharp protests, especially from Mumbai commuters.

Railways may soon announce a hike in passenger fares. However, the timing of announcing the revision in fares is still not decided.

While these measures, may inflict discomfort, it's long-term gains in form of better job opportunities & higher income levels that govt may...

The only way out of the mess is to boost revenues by setting up an independent regulator for rationalising passenger tariffs and freight ra...

Railways can provide industrial infra'ture & enable affordable mobility.