<p>The Indian Railways, which recently started more than 400 festival special trains, has clarified that it had not hiked fare for festival special trains.<br /><br />Dismissing allegation about fare hike in festival special trains, the railways on Wednesday said that these were misleading stories.<br /><br />“News regarding the hike in rail passenger fare during festival season is misleading and erroneous," Railways said.<br /><br /> “As per rules, the fare for special trains run during peak demand seasons like the festival season, the summer holiday season is different and higher than regular mail or express time-tabled trains."<br /><br />The railways announced the operation of 416 festival special trains from October 20 till November 30 to meet the festival rush.<br /><br />Apart from this, the railways will also be operating 682 special trains and 20 cloned trains.</p>
<p>The Indian Railways, which recently started more than 400 festival special trains, has clarified that it had not hiked fare for festival special trains.<br /><br />Dismissing allegation about fare hike in festival special trains, the railways on Wednesday said that these were misleading stories.<br /><br />“News regarding the hike in rail passenger fare during festival season is misleading and erroneous," Railways said.<br /><br /> “As per rules, the fare for special trains run during peak demand seasons like the festival season, the summer holiday season is different and higher than regular mail or express time-tabled trains."<br /><br />The railways announced the operation of 416 festival special trains from October 20 till November 30 to meet the festival rush.<br /><br />Apart from this, the railways will also be operating 682 special trains and 20 cloned trains.</p>
