Dhaka: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways Ministry at a meeting on Tuesday recommended raising train fares again.

It also suggested maintaining the railway’s service standard and keeping in mind so that the fare of normal class tickets is not hiked so much, reports UNB.

The committee, with its chairman ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury in the chair, came up with the suggestions at its 19th meeting held at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

The advice for raising the train fare came only three years after the last hike.

On 1 October 2012, the government raised fares of both passenger and freight trains by around 50 percent after nearly 20 years.

The committee called for taking necessary steps to introduce a rail engineering department in all the public and private engineering universities and establish a fully-fledged Rail University in the future.

The meeting held an elaborate discussion about taking pragmatic steps for constructing multi-storey commercial icon buildings in Dhaka and Chittagong.

Committee members Railways Minister M Mazibul Hoque, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, Sirajul Islam Mollah and Yeasin Ali attended the meeting.