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The Railway Ministry connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) officially notified a hike successful bid summons prices by 1 paise per km for mean people beyond a travel of 215 km, and 2 paise per km for non-AC classes of mail/express trains and AC classes of each trains.
On December 21, the Ministry announced its determination to summation the rider fares from December 26.
This is the 2nd clip successful a twelvemonth that the Ministry has revised rider bid fares. The earlier fare hike was implemented successful July.
Justifying its decision, the Ministry stated that the rationalising of fares has "the nonsubjective of balancing affordability for passengers and sustainability of operations".
"Under the revised fare structure, determination is nary alteration successful fares for suburban services and play tickets, including some suburban and non-suburban routes. For mean non-AC (non-suburban) services, fares person been rationalised successful a graded mode crossed 2nd people ordinary, sleeper people ordinary, and archetypal people ordinary," the ministry said successful a statement.
It added, "In 2nd people ordinary, determination is nary summation successful fare for journeys up to 215 km, ensuring that short-distance and regular commuters are not impacted. For distances from 216 km to 750 km, the fare increases by ₹5. For longer journeys, the summation is applied successful steps — ₹10 for distances betwixt 751 km and 1250 km, ₹15 for distances betwixt 1251 km and 1750 km, and ₹20 for distances betwixt 1751 km and 2250 km." According to the ministry, fares for sleeper people mean and archetypal people mean person been revised uniformly astatine the complaint of 1 paise per kilometre for non-suburban journeys, ensuring a gradual and constricted summation successful summons prices.
It stated that successful mail/express trains, the fare summation has been rationalised astatine 2 paise per kilometre crossed non-AC and AC classes.
"This includes sleeper class, archetypal class, AC seat car, AC 3-tier, AC 2-tier, and AC archetypal class. As an illustration, for a 500 km travel successful non-AC mail/express coaches, passengers volition wage lone astir Rs 10 extra," the connection said.
The authoritative notification said that the existing basal fares of large bid services, including Tejas Rajdhani, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, Duronto, Vande Bharat, Humsafar, Amrit Bharat, Tejas, Mahamana, Gatimaan, Antyodaya, Garib Rath, Jan Shatabdi, Yuva Express, Namo Bharat Rapid Rail, and mean non-suburban services (excluding AC MEMU/DEMU, wherever applicable), person been revised successful enactment with the approved class-wise basal fare increases.
"The revised fares are applicable lone connected tickets booked connected oregon aft 26 December, 2025. Tickets booked anterior to this day volition not pull immoderate further charges, adjacent if the travel is undertaken aft the effectual date," it added.
The fare database displayed astatine stations volition besides beryllium updated to bespeak the caller fares effectual from December 26.
The Ministry maintained that Indian Railways remains committed to providing safe, reliable and affordable question to millions of passengers each day.
The revised fare operation reflects a balanced attack that safeguards rider convenience portion maintaining operational sustainability, it said.
