Very strange, startling and thought provoking revelations! This one is really is a gem of news!!
(1) 21km journey and 44km journey second class monthly season tickets costing same Rs 215! Too crude a slab for season tickets by any standards, which lead to great injustice to the passengers paying the same amount for less than half the journey travelled.
(2) It is a wonder why (a few) slab system is being followed if the ticketing is computerized and no manual intervention/ calculation is required. Such correction is only taking place today, just because...
more... it has become a necessity to increase revenue, due to precarious financial condition of IR. This should have been looked after long ago with computerization of ticketing. Slab should be –km to – km 10Rs, --km to – km 15 rs, --km to –km 20Rs …, and for passes there should be many slabs like …. –km to – km 200Rs, -- km to – km 210 Rs …. and so on.
(3) Are the fare of season tickets in local trains same for all the cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai etc or there are different fare structures for different zones?? If there is universal tariff, then does WR CR have authority to have their own fare structure??
(4) Is drastic increase of first class season ticket fare (47%) done to assess the limit the passengers may be willing to pay for the air conditioned local trains which currently are in trial phase?