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| Circular number | Commercial Circular No. 57 of 2001 |
|---|---|
| File number | No. TCI/2910/2001/Safety |
| Date | 2001-08-29 |
| Type | Commercial Circular |
| Topic | fares |
| Currency | Historical — likely superseded |
| Official PDF | indianrailways.gov.in |
Levy of Safety Surcharge on passenger fare tickets, till the tickets showing revised fares are printed, old tickets may be issued’ ,
Government of India (Bharat Sarkar) Ministry of Railways (Rail Mantralaya) (Railway Board) (Commercial Circular No. 57 of 2001 ) . ‘No. TCI/2910/2001/Safety Surcharge. New Delhi, Dated 4 .09.2001, The General Managers, All Indian Railways. Sub: Levy of Safety Surcharge on passenger fare. As announced by Minister for Railways in the Lok Sabha on 29.8.2001, - Ministry of Railways have decided to levy Safety Surcharge on passenger fare with effect from 1 October, 2001. This safety surcharge fund has been set up 85 a non-lapsable special Railway Safety Fund to wipe out the arrears of replacement on the Railways in a fixed time schedule. It has been decided to levy -the Safety Surcharge as a flat amount per passenger depending on the class of travel and length of journey. The amount of Safety Surcharge for different classes of travel and length of journey will be as under : 7 “Glass oftravel | Increase per passenger | pees Single journey Second (Ordy) to. Second (M/E) - 2. | '' |Sleeper |... 10 अ 0 | _ First 20 40 : [AC 3-tier Sleeper __ 30 TAC 2-tier Sleeper | 40 | [AC FirstExecutive ~ 50 First clas . .' 20 . 10. First class . —— 60. _Not applicable _ Second class 30 Not applicable 2, _. The above mentioned surcharge will be levied (in full) per passenger _ irrespective of whether the reserved/unreserved ticket/season ticket is issued to an adult .or a. child, or against concession or against different types of _. Warrants/Vouchers, ete, This surcharge will also be levied (in full) on Low Value - -MSTs of Rs. 15. However, it will not be levied on Free MSTs issued to students. -2- 3. The safety surcharge will apply. to passengers travelling by all trains including Rajdhani/Shatabdi group of trains. This will also apply to tickets issued over Metro Railway. The safety surcharge will be levied on all tickets i.e. single journey/season tickets issued though PRS/SPTMs, Printed Card Tickets, Blank Paper Ticket (BPT)/Excess Fare Ticket (EFT), unreserved tickets, coupons of Coupon Validating Machines (CVMs) issued on suburban/non-suburban sections, etc. This surcharge will be levied separately for each leg of journey in cases where. - more than.:one journey is involved on.a ticket (like Circular Journey Ticket, Combined ticket, etc.). 4. Inthe case of PRS tickets/Season tickets, the surcharge will be part of the total chargeable fare and will not be shown separately on the tickets. However, an) separate class-wise accountal of the number of passengers booked and Safety... : Surcharge collected will be maintained on daily basis, 10- day period basis, monthly basis and yearly basis. Similar accountal will be maintained for the _ MSTs/QSTs issued through PRS. Suitable changes in the software may be made __ , accordingly. These statements should be sent to Traffic Accounts offices regularly for accountal and compilation. . ) 5, _ ॥ the case of tickéts/Season Tickets issued through SPTMs, the surcharge will be part of the total chargeable fare and will not be shown separately on the tickets. Necessary correction of fare in software by generating EPROM timely must be ensured. The accountal procedure mentioned in para 4 above shall be | followed and maintained.» yes 6. in case of Printed Card Tickets, the surcharge will be part of .the total chargeable fare and will not be shown separately. in the case of old stock of” tickets, till the tickets showing revised fares are printed, old tickets may be issued’ , after having necessary corrections in fares made on them in advance. T The correction of fares on the ticket shall be made by the staff by stamp and authorised: signatures. The accountal of umber of passengers booked and Safety Surcharge. collected, class-wise, shall be maintained in DTC summary on. daily/10-- day/monthly/yearly basis and sent to Traffic Accounts office regularly for accountal and compilation. — ः 7. In the case of coupons for CVMs (including ‘anywhere to anywhere’ daily : coupons recently intro
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