The India Railways has started hiking the platform tickets to prevent the gathering of a large crowd in railway premises and also cancelled the trains due to low occupancy in the wake of COVID-19.
Some zonal railways have hiked the platform ticket charges from Rs 10 to Rs 50 starting Tuesday.
Six divisions of the Western railway zone -- Mumbai, Vadodra, Ahmedabad, Ratlam, Rajkot, Bhavnagar -- that covers around 250 railway stations have hiked the platform tickets.
The Southern Railways zone increased the platform ticket only in Chennai, the Central zone, comprising of five divisions -- Mumbai (CST), Bhusawal, Nagpur, Solapur, Pune -- have raised prices.
Due to low occupancy, the Central Railway (CR) announced the cancellation of 23 outstation trains including Kalburgi-Securnderbad, Deccan Express, Nandigram Express and Pragati Express from Wednesday till April 1, a CR release said.
Railways also witnessing huge cancellation of tickets for the past two days. The railway board has authorised the zones to take a decision to cancel the trains if poor occupancy reported, said an official in the national transporter.
(Published 17 March 2020, 14:55 IST)
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