{"id":656968,"date":"2025-12-23T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656968"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:15:24","slug":"indian-railways-to-hike-ticket-prices-from-dec-26-estimates-rs-600-cr-revenue-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-to-hike-ticket-prices-from-dec-26-estimates-rs-600-cr-revenue-gain\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways to hike ticket prices from Dec 26, estimates Rs 600 cr revenue gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railway on Sunday announced a new fare structure effective from December 26, 2025. India&#8217;s second-largest employer estimates a Rs 600 crore revenue gain from this change. <\/p>\n<p>Under the new ticket pricing structure, passengers will pay 1 paisa per km extra on journeys beyond 215 km in Ordinary Class, and 2 paise per km for Mail\/Express Non-AC and AC classes. For passengers travelling shorter routes than 215 km, there are no hike in ticket prices. Meanwhile, passengers on a 500 km Non-AC journey will pay an additional Rs 10 for their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Railway on Sunday announced a new fare structure effective from December 26, 2025. India&#8217;s second-largest employer estimates a Rs 600 crore revenue gain from this change. Under the new ticket pricing structure, passengers will pay 1 paisa per km extra on journeys beyond 215 km in Ordinary Class, and 2 paise per km for Mail\/Express Non-AC and AC classes. For passengers travelling shorter routes than 215 km, there are no hike in ticket prices. Meanwhile, passengers on a 500 km Non-AC journey will pay an additional Rs 10 for their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}