IR earns more than Rs 5 billion from tatkal and premium tatkal tickets

January 22, 2022

Indian Railways (IR) has earned nearly Rs 4.03 billion from tatkal ticket charges, an additional Rs 1.19 billion from premium tatkal tickets and Rs 5.11 billion from dynamic fares during the year even as operations were suspended during most of 2020-21 due to the ongoing Covid-19 pande­mic. Further, IR has earned Rs 2.4 billion from dynamic fares, Rs 3.53 billion from tatkal tickets and Rs 0.89 billion from premium tatkal charges in 2021-22 (till September 2021). IR did not launch any new trains during 2020-21. It launched 144 new train services in 2019-20, 266 services in 2018-19, 170 services in 2017-18 and 223 services in 2016-17.