Indian Railways is planning to introduce ‘affordable’ user fees at 700-1,050 railway stations across the country with high footfalls in order to generate more revenue while providing better world-class facilities to passengers. In a press briefing on Thursday, Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav stated that the national transporter will soon start levying a “user fee” as part of train fares for stations that have been redeveloped and major stations with high footfall to generate more revenue to provide better facilities for passengers.

The charges would be nominal, and applicable in 10-15 per cent of the 7,000 railway stations across the country, Yadav added. Note that that initial plan was to levy user charges from passengers using only 50 modernized stations. However, now the plan is to introduce nominal fee at over 1,000 stations. 

Indian Railways is planning to introduce ‘affordable’ user fees at 700-1,050 railway stations across the country with high footfalls in order to generate more revenue while providing better world-class facilities to passengers. In a press briefing on Thursday, Railway Board Chairman V K Yadav stated that the national transporter will soon start levying a “user fee” as part of train fares for stations that have been redeveloped and major stations with high footfall to generate more revenue to provide better facilities for passengers.

The charges would be nominal, and applicable in 10-15 per cent of the 7,000 railway stations across the country, Yadav added. Note that that initial plan was to levy user charges from passengers using only 50 modernized stations. However, now the plan is to introduce nominal fee at over 1,000 stations.