Kolkata Metro, the first metro service in the country has announced a fare hike, which may go up between 25 percent and over 100 percent for various distances. The news fares will be effective from Nov 7, the railway board announced Wednesday.
The entire railway route has been divided into six zones, based on distance, while deciding the new raised fares. Earlier, there were five zones.
The newly added zone includes distances between 25 and 30 km. So long, any distance above 20 km was considered one single zone.
The new hiked fares will be as follows:
Earlier on Oct 15, the Railway Board had announced a sharp increase in fares, with the rates rising by up to two-and-a-half times on certain stretches but hours after the announcement, the minister of state for railways Adhir Chowdhury halted the move, saying there was a need for review of the increased tariff.
Kolkata Metro, the country's first metro rail system running across 25.135 km on the city's busy north-south axis from Dumdum to Kavi Subhash, opened commercial services in 1984. It ferries around 6.5 lakh commuters on weekdays and nearly four lakh passengers on weekends.
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