By not shying away from an increase in passenger fares (that hardy annual sacred cow), even though only to a token extent, the rail mantri partly lived up to the expectations raised by his pre-budget announcements. Still, it's a case of too little, and certainly too late. Although increase in fares would approximately corres-pond to around 10-12% for different classes of travel, some small additional revenue will also come from rounding off of fares.