Lahore:
Pakistan Railways have made a 2% increase in ticket prices in passenger trains, considering an increase in the price of high -speed diesel (HSD). This increase in ticket prices comes into force from today on July 18.
An undated office morandum seen by the Express Pakinomist instructed the director to secure the announcement of the new ticket prices on the PR web site.
The railways have also increased the speed of its freight trains carrying coal by 3%, and the trains carrying rock phosphates and fertilizers by 2%. These hikes are valid from July 21st.
On Tuesday, the government raised the prices of oil products up to RS11 per year. Liters for the second half of July in a regressive step that is likely to aggravate people’s financial difficulties.
According to a notification issued by the Finance Department on July 15, the gasoline price increased by RS5.36 – from RS266.79 to RS272.15 per year. Liter, while the price of HSD increased by RS11.37 per Liter – from RS272.98 to RS284.35 for July 16-31.
This increase in the HSD price increased the cost of PR operation with RS4 million [39,86,500] per. day and about r199 million [119,500,000] per. month. On average, per. 350,000 liters of HSD consumes per day.
