No, only concessional tickets for senior citizen can be availed thru online booking ----- Original Message ----- From: "Viraj" <vka...@gmail.com> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [AI] information required about reservation of tickets intrains (An Additional Query)
Can tickets on concession be availed in online or telephone booking through cash card? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [AI] information required about reservation of tickets in trains >I can only say that unfortunately, both the things are true. > > Rajesh > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in > [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Rohiet A. > Patil > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:49 PM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: Re: [AI] information required about reservation of tickets in > trains > > Hi! > I would like to notice 2 more things. Some times partly blind persons face > problem in getting concession in railway fare dispite of having valid > concession certificate authorised by medical official. > One more thing is there is no information abailable regarding hp quota on > railway call centre (139). So that we have to look on the internet > compelsarily. > Regards, > Rohiet Patil > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> > To: "K .RAGHURAMAN" <thinkdontbl...@gmail.com>; > <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:26 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] information required about reservation of tickets in > trains > > >> Friends >> >> I am not at all amazed at the utter confusion prevailing about various >> facilities to disabled in Indian railways. >> So, following points are offered to clarify the matter: >> >> >> 1. Blind concession and HP quota are two different things: blind >> concession is available in first and second AC. at rate of 50% and is >> called handicapped higher class concession, and in third AC and sleeper >> class at the rate of 75% for both self and escort on production of valid >> railway concession certificate, and is called blind lower class >> concession. HP quota is a quota of two berths available only in sleeper >> class to the disabled persons including blind. Due to its terminology it >> is arbitrarily denied to blind travelers as rightly pointed out. they >> interpret the word handicapped as meaning only orthopedically disabled. >> So, we should insist on uniform nomenclature. Besides, a blind person can >> get concession in any class, and even berth in HP quota in sleeper class >> without escort unlike orthopedically disabled. >> 2. The handicapped or disabled coach is an altogether different coach of >> four berths attached at the extremities of wrack with a lot of lacunae, >> as >> said. >> 3. However, recently, railways is further confusing the matters by >> extending the scope of hp quota even to reserve those four berths in >> disabled coach, whereby two undesired things result: >> a. the person getting berths in hp quota may get them in regular sleeper >> class or in disabled coach. and >> b. the status of that disabled coach is reserved as well as ordinary, >> which results in chaos. >> >> 4. All this is in addition to arbitrariness which reservation clerks and >> supervisors indulge in, because any wrong issue of concession tickets is >> penalized by recovering the differential amount from their salary. And >> all >> this is again in addition to indiscriminate entry into disabled coach by >> all and sundry and greed of GRP AND RPF in expelling them at the precise >> moment of departure of train. >> Situation is slightly better in south, I think. >> >> >> Rajesh >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in >> [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of K >> .RAGHURAMAN >> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:45 PM >> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in >> Subject: Re: [AI] information required about reservation of tickets in >> trains >> >> there are also many problems in this coach for the disabled. 1 there is >> no >> railway official to take care of the passengers travelling in this coach. >> 2 >> the coach is totally disconnected from all other compartments that is >> there >> is no vestibule to move from one compartment to another. 3 no connection >> with the pantry car. 4 more importantly at the max only 8 passengers >> along >> with the escorts can travel. this mail is not to harm or defame anyone >> but >> to highlight the real condition of the coach. so please think about this >> and >> take these maters also to the higher officials in the railways and ask >> for >> at least 40 seats and all other facilities like the sighted to have a >> decent and comfortabble journey. regards raghu. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> >> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:56 PM >> Subject: Re: [AI] information required about reservation of tickets in >> trains >> >> >>> It is very much available to VI, and is called: HP quota. >>> The arbitrary denial can well be countered by compelling them-railway >>> rank >>> and file-to enter the data in the system for booking and selecting hp >>> quota. >>> The system accepts it duly. However, I am afraid if they are not willing >>> to key in the data in system, a blind person single handedly can not >>> prevail upon them to do so, practically speaking and the issue should be >>> taken up at higher levels of the concerned station by advocacy groups >>> and >>> awareness spread. >>> >>> Rajesh >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in >>> [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of >>> tirumangalam >>> sandeep >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:23 AM >>> To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in >>> Subject: [AI] information required about reservation of tickets in >>> trains >>> >>> good morning to all accessindia members >>> recently i went to a railway reservation counter to reserve tickets >>> with the railway concession form for the blind but the waiting list >>> was above 250 so i asked the person sitting in the counter to give me >>> a ticket in the disabled quota which he refused saying that visually >>> impaired are not given tickets in the disabled quota on asking about >>> the previous time that another person had given me in that quota he >>> refused saying "i dont know how that person gave you that time" and >>> shouted at me to talk the ticket in the waiting list or leave >>> dear AI member i wanted suggestions is the disabled quota available >>> for the VI persons or not >>> >>> >>> >>> To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >>> with the subject unsubscribe. >>> >>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>> please visit the list home page at >>> >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >>> >>> Notice: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential >>> and >>> intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are >>> addressed. 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