The month of July has started with many major changes in the country. These include a shocking change for those traveling by Indian Railways. Yes, today i.e. from 1 July 2025, an increase in railway fares has been implemented, which is going to affect the pocket of railway passengers. If you like to travel by train often, then it is very important for you to understand the calculation of increase in rail fares. Please tell here that the effect of this railway train fare hike will be seen on a long distance journey. Let us understand how much money will have to be spent to go from Delhi to Patna or Delhi to Mumbai?
Railways increased the fare so much
First of all, we know how much and what changes have been made by the Indian Railways from July 1. So let us know that Indian Railway has increased the railway fare for all long distance passenger trains including AC and non -AC mail and expression. This increase in rate tickets has been increased for different categories of trains. According to the Railways, now the rent of mail and express trains has been increased by 1 paise per kilometer, while if you travel by AC train, this increase will be applicable at 2 paise per kilometer.
It has already been made clear by the railway that there has been no change in the second class train ticket prices and MST for the rail journey of up to 500 km, that is, the fare for them will remain the same. However, if the journey has to cover a distance of more than 500 kilometers, then the passenger will have to pay half a paisa (0.5 paise) per kilometer.
Fare from Delhi to Patna or Mumbai is now so much
Railway train fare hike as an example. So the distance from Delhi to Patna is about 1000 km and till now traveling in the capital train was Rs 2485, which has increased by 2 paise per kilometer after the increase in implementation today. Now by calculating the distance, the train ticket increases by Rs 20 and the train ticket will increase to Rs 2505.
Now suppose that you decide this one thousand kilometers from Delhi to Patna with 3A of Sampoorna Kranti Express, so the fare here so far, it will now increase by Rs 20 to Rs 20 to Rs 1370 at the rate of Rs 2 paise per kilometer.
Accordingly, on completing the journey of Delhi to Mumbai with Rajdhani Express, now the passenger will have to pay more fare. In fact, the distance from Delhi to Mumbai is about 1386 km and so far the fare of 3AC in Rajdhani Express is Rs 3080, after the increase in 2 paise per kilometer, the fare will increase by about Rs 27 and the train ticket will increase to Rs 3107.
Not so much increase in non-acre fares
Now Delhi to Patna also understands the math of non -AC class or sleeper class, so at present, the rail fare for this journey is Rs 510 and according to the changes made by the railway, it is being implemented by 1 paise per kilometer. In such a situation, there will be an increase of 10 rupees in the fares of sleeper class from Delhi to Patna and in the entire revolution, there will be a ticket of 520 rupees for going from Delhi to Patna.
This change was also implemented from today
Indian Railways has not only implemented the increase in train ticket prices, but has also changed the Tatkal Ticket Booking Rule change from July 1. Under the latest change, now only IRCTC users will be able to do Tatkal tickets of railway, whose IRCTC account will be Aadhaar at Aadhaar. This big step has been taken by the Railways to prevent the long -running fraud on the immediate ticket. In this, more changes will be seen on July 15, since another step of Aadhaar based OTP verification will have to be completed for booking Tatkal tickets.