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Cigarettes Got More Expensive, Booking Train Tickets Online Got Cheaper

In this file photo, Hussain Jamal, a fisherman from India, smokes a cigarette as he sits with others, after their release from prison in Karachi, Pakistan, December 25, 2016. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

Budget 2017 is done and dusted. Beyond the jargon News18 brings you a list of items that you will have to shell out more money for and some that got cheaper.

These items are now cheaper:

· Booking train tickets online. No change in train fares and removal of service charge while booking tickets on the IRCTC website
· Liquefied natural gas (LNG)
· Solar tempered glass used in solar panels
· Point of Sale machines card and fingerprint readers

Items that will be more expensive:

· Cigarettes, tobacco, pan masala, bidis
· LED lamps
· Cashew nuts
· Aluminium ores and concentrates
· Silver coins and medallions
· Printed circuit board used in making mobile phones

Source: News18