Published on: August 26, 2025 11:52 pm IST
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) revised the passenger fares on Monday after a gap of about eight years.
The student body said that students from various universities led by the Students Federation of India (SFI) staged a protest outside the DMRC headquarters on Tuesday, recently demanded an immediate rollback of the metro fare hike, the student body said.
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Monday revised the passenger fares after a gap of nearly eight years, with financial stress due to the cost of Kovid deficit, loan repayment and maintenance. Hike is altruistic 1 Based on the distance of 4 travel, officials said.
Members of the All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) also joined the demonstration, saying that growth students and working women would be killed as they rely on the metro for their daily traffic.
The protesters alleged that lakhs of students already spend 100 per day on trip, and an additional burden of increase will be added 500-800 per month.
SFI Delhi State Committee member Sohan Kumar Yadav said, “A major part of the student community comes from a middle-class and economically disadvantaged background. An increase of ten rupees per journey means that there are hundreds of rupees additional every month, which forces us to choose between travel and necessary educational needs.”
SFI activist Abhinandana Pratashi said that the metro is considered a relatively safe mode of transport for women students, and the fare hike will force many to seek many cheap but unsafe options.
Adwa Delhi Secretary Kavita Sharma said, “For many women students and working women, metro colleges, workplaces and homes are the only safe and reliable means of reaching it. It denies women’s fundamental rights of mobility and security by making it ineffective.”
The SFI and Aidwa demanded that the DMRC immediately withdraw the fare hike and urged both the BJP -led Center and the Delhi government to present a concessional metro pass for students.
