Traveling in Indian Railways just got costlier from today with about 10ps /km hike in the Passenger fares coming into effect.
According to  Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal , around  this hike would mobilize an additional revenue of Rs 6600 crore in a year.According to him, the hike will rake in an additional Rs 1200 crore between January 22 and March 31.
Fares of ordinary second class (suburban) trains will go up by 2 paise per km while for non-suburban travel it will be 3 paise.
Travel by second class mail and express trains will be costlier by 4 paise per km, while it will be 6 paise more in sleeper class.
Travellers by AC chair car and AC three tier will have to shell out 10 paise more per km, first class by 3 paise, AC two tier by 6 paise and AC first class by 10 paise.
The fares for first class, AC two tier and AC first/ executive class were already raised by 10 paise per km, 15 and 30 paise respectively in the fiscal’s budget.