₹600 per passenger.“Average fare that we got was ₹600 per passenger. We carried more than 60 lakh passengers. Of the total cost incurred, we have been able to recover only 15%.
Rest (85%) has been borne by the Centre," Yadav said briefing the media.“These fares were fixed as per normal mail express trains and not as special trains,"To put things into perspective, railways recovered an average fare of ₹600 per passenger, which is the 15% of the total cost incurred.
It earned ₹360 crore, ferrying 60 lakh stranded migrant workers to their hometown. However, the transporter spend more than it earned, by incur an expenditure of ₹2,040 crore.