It's been announced that Rail travellers will have to pay more from Tuesday.

Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had announced across the board hike in passenger fares to raise an additional fund to the tune of Rs 6,600 crore in a year.

The hike, which has come after a decade, will generate additional Rs 1,200 crore this fiscal. In fact, The additional burden with the diesel price hike is expected to be around Rs 2,500 crore.

To say more, 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 while 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. Whereas 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.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)