* But after almost freeze in UR for more than a decade the balance of recovery to input is totally disturbed.
* IR probably recover about 25% of its input cost in this class. Ideally the recovery ratio should be about 110% of input cost for the business to be profitable.
* Increase of fare by 5-10% is insignificant as it may just increase the recovery by just about 2-3% only. There is no significant difference in getting fail with 25/100 and 27/100 marks.
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more... So no political party want to touch the hornets nest with just 5-10% rise i this class. IR try to make it up through tools like special fare/ Suvidha/ Flexifar/ Tatkal/ Premiu-Tatkal, increase in cacellation charge, convertin ME to SFs, Passengers to Express trains.