00:00Some more news coming in. Vijay government hikes auto fares in Tamil Nadu.
00:04Auto fares hiked in Tamil Nadu after 15 years.
00:07After milk now, Chief Minister Vijay also hikes auto fares.
00:11So minimum auto fare has been hiked to 50 rupees for 1.8 kilometers.
00:16Earlier the minimum fare was rupees 25 for 1.8 kilometers.
00:21And then additional fare for every kilometer has also been hiked to 25 rupees.
00:27So 25 rupees per additional kilometer along with 50 rupees which is the minimum fare for 1.8 kilometers.
00:37So additional fare for every kilometer earlier was 12 rupees.
00:40Now it has been hiked to 25 rupees whereas the minimum fare earlier for 1.8 kilometers was 25 rupees
00:47which has now been hiked to 50 rupees which is almost the double.
00:51So Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay doubles minimum auto fare and also the per kilometer price that has been,
01:00that has in fact hiked, that has become even more than double.
01:03Because earlier it was 12 rupees, now it is 25 rupees.
01:07My colleague Anika is now joining us with more details on this.
01:10Anika, what prompted this hike in the auto fare?
01:13And don't you think that doubling the prices is a bit too much,
01:19be it the minimum fare or be it the additional kilometer fare?
01:23Well in fact they have hiked it above the existing price.
01:27In fact at the moment it was 25 rupees for the starting 1.8 kilometers.
01:33And then for every additional kilometer after that it was 12 rupees.
01:37But now they have doubled it.
01:39The very minimum base fare has been doubled from 25 to 50 rupees for starting 1.8 kilometers.
01:45In fact this was a long standing demand of Auto Drivers Association.
01:49There were multiple protests that the auto drivers had staged demanding for a price hike of their minimum fare.
01:57But after 13 years is when this government has made this move by doubling the minimum fare.
02:03Alright Anika, thank you for those details.
02:05So the auto drivers had been raising this demand of Auto Fare Hike.
02:09And now that has been done by the Vijay government with the minimum fare now being doubled from 25 to
02:1450 rupees.
02:15And the additional kilometer fare now stands at 25 rupees per kilometer.
