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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | BJP says 85% fare subsidy for special trains: Harping on a mere technicality? - Soumya Chatterjee

BJP says 85% fare subsidy for special trains: Harping on a mere technicality? - Soumya Chatterjee

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published Published on May 4, 2020   modified Modified on May 5, 2020

-TheNewsMinute.com

Migrant workers in many parts of the country are being made to pay Rs 1000 to Rs 1400 per head to return home.

It’s the season for politics over train tickets, even as migrant workers across the country are confused, and struggling to reach home. The BJP on Monday claimed that the Indian Railways has subsidised 85% of ticket fare for special trains being run to transport migrant workers. It’s only the remaining 15% that the state governments have to pay, they said. This development comes after Sonia Gandhi, interim-Congress president, earlier in the day said that state units of the Congress party will take care of the train fares which migrants are being forced to pay in many parts of the country.

Now, it appears that the 85% subsidy that the BJP is talking about is a mere technicality, and the actual cost of travel per head has not been reduced by the central government. The '15%' that the BJP says state governments have to pay, is the full cost of 1200 tickets per train -- and while some state governments are paying this, others have asked migrant workers to pay it themselves. In many parts of the country, poor migrants being made to pay Rs 1000 to Rs 1400 per head to return home – hundreds of rupees more than regular train fares on the same routes.

A controversy erupted on Sunday with opposition parties demanding that migrant workers who have been stranded across the country and want to return home, should not be charged for train tickets. The central government in its notification said that it is not charging ticket fares from individuals, but is instead asking state governments to bear the cost of 1200 tickets per train -- which the BJP has translated as '15% of the total cost'.   

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TheNewsMinute.com, 4 May, 2020, https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/bjp-says-85-fare-subsidy-special-trains-mere-technicality-123906


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