Reacting to adjustments in tariff, Mohan Gurnani, president of the Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM), was of the view that in the present conditions of a depressed market "it would have been better if the tariff structure had not been modified."

While the AIAI president Vijay Kalantari welcomed the negligible increase in freight charges, he said "it should have been more favorable to the common man." The IMC president, however, differed on this saying, "the marginal increase in passenger fares would not hurt the common man." There is no mention as to what concrete steps the ministry would take for commercial exploitation of landavailable with it, Trivedi said.