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Railways to restore service charges on e-tickets from Sept 1

  •   Sat, Aug 31 2019 06:28:28 PM

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS): In a setback for rail passengers, the Indian Railways has decided to restore the service charges on its e-tickets from September 1, which it had withdrawn after demonetisation to promote digital payments.

A senior Railway Ministry official said the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), which manages the online ticketing of the national transporter, will restore the service charges on the tickets booked from its platform.

He said the railways which earlier used to levy Rs 20 for tickets for non air-conditioned coaches and Rs 40 for tickets for air-conditioned coaches as service charges, will now charge Rs 15 and Rs 30 for the non-AC and AC coaches' tickets respectively.

He said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be applicable separately on each ticket.

The service charges were withdrawn in late 2016 after demonetisation to promote digital payments.

The official pointed out that after the service charges were discontinued, the IRCTC saw a drop of over 26 per cent in Internet ticketing revenue.
  

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  • Rathan, Mangalore

    Sat, Aug 31 2019

    Smr
    Just compare the rates of essential items like onion, dal, rice, cooking oil from 2009 to 2014 and from 2014 to 2019you will see the difference between UPA and NDA. The US Dollar rate which was around 42 in 2008 went upto 60 in 2014 and it was 50 %depreciation. From 2014 to 2019 it went up from 60 to 70 just 15%

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  • Rehna, Mangalore

    Sat, Aug 31 2019

    Indian economy is in shambles , and this is the acche din what Modi had promised. All the bakths have disappeared .Very soon Railways will be on Sale

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  • Sms, Kundapura

    Sat, Aug 31 2019

    Bolo modi ki jai ho!
    Many more to be out from modi-shah’s kitty
    Get ready for worst economic crisis!
    These all the return gifts from modi for the janata, who voted him back to power.

    Again
    Modi ki jai

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  • SmR, Karkala

    Sat, Aug 31 2019

    The cashless economy seems to have negative effects on the common man expenditure. The bankrupt government of PM Modi of BJP in ICU on Reserve Bank of India's life savings.

    The dream of 'Bullet train' draining the largest public sector into another bankruptcy. While former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad lodged in jail gave two times the profit and bonuses to its employees, the present Minister Piyush Goyal wants security guards to join RSS shakhas for better ‘weapon’ training instead of streamling the budget deficit in the Railways.

    The day will not far like 'Air-India', the Indian railways will up for sale to private operators with dubious company associate with the corporates linked to the ruling party BJP.

    Is 'Indian Railways' is going to be next 'Air India', BSNL, MTNL, RBI, Assam Paper Mills, HMT, HAL......
    ?
    Jai Hind

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