why these letters are coming to the group? is it copy or any error? i have
also written letters to railway authorities, but, my post did not come to
the list.
----- Original Message -----
From: "srinivas.carnati" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 17 June, 2011 8:22 PM
Subject: [AI] Extension of Rail Concession For The Physically Handicapped
Development and Welfare Association of the Blind, A P.
(Reg. No. Mc 4460 / 1996)
Affiliated to All India Confederation of the Blind ,New Delhi
SURDAS BHAVAN, DEENDAYAL NAGAR, GOLLAGUDA, NALGONDA, (A.p), pin- 508001
Phone: 08682 227920, Telefax: 08682 229654, E-mail: [email protected],
Web: www. helpvisually challenged.org
________________________________________________________________________
Ref: DWAB/45/2011
Dated: 08.06.2011
To
The Chairman,
Railway Board,
Ministry of Railways,
Government of India,
Rail Bhawan,
New Delhi-110001.
Subject: Extension of Rail Concession For The Physically
Handicapped Including The Blind In Shatabdi and Rajdhani Trains.
Sir,
With reference to the subject cited above on behalf of the development and
welfare association of the blind We write to invite your kind attention to
your Ministry's Circular No. 19 of 2011 No. TCII/2196/11/Policy Dated
3.5.2011, from Financial Commissioner, Railway Board.
2. The aforesaid Circular extends concession in Shatabdi and Rajdhani
trains to orthopaedically handicapped and paraplegic persons on the basis
of the announcement made by the then Minister of Railways in her Budget
Speech on 25th February, 2011. However, we submit that extending these
concessions to the above two categories of handicapped persons only, is
contrary to the spirit of the Hon'ble Minister's announcement, the widely
accepted principle of equality and justice for all as also the
time-tested Railway policy of allowing concessions to the handicapped
including the blind. We make this submission for the following reasons:
2.1. The relevant announcement made by the Hon'ble Minister in the said
Budget Speech, (Paragraph 86) reads as follows: "Concessions 86. At
present physically handicapped persons are not entitled for concessions on
Rajdhani and Shatabdi trains. It is proposed to extend the concession
facility to them in these trains also."
2.2. Handicapped persons, as you would be aware, are broadly placed into 2
categories: the physically handicapped and the mentally retarded.
2.3. The physically handicapped cover a wide spectrum including the blind,
the deaf etc. and not just the orthopaedically handicapped.
2.4. It is in line with this well-accepted policy that Indian Railways
have been granting, beginning from the 50's, various rail concessions to
the blind.
2.5. There is, therefore, no reason why the blind are now sought to be
denied the facility of grant of concession in Shatabdi and Rajdhani
trains, while allowing the same to just two types of handicapped persons.
2.5. Surely, it cannot be the intention of the Ministry of Railways to
favour one type of the handicapped over the other, especially, since all
earlier rail concessions have been made applicable to the blind.
2.6. To us, it seems that the above Circular is just the result of some
oversight on the part of some processing official and not the outcome of
any careful or objective deliberation, since the blind too need as much
help as the two types under reference.
2.7. Moreover, the above Circular allows this concession up to the extent
of 25% only in just AC Three-Tier and Chair Car. That, too, is against
the present practice, wherein 75% concession is allowed in lower classes
and 50% in upper classes.
In view of the foregoing, we write to request you to kindly review the
contents of the aforesaid Circular and extend concessions to the blind
also in Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains, keeping the quantum of concessions
as 75% and 50% in lower and upper classes respectively.
Soliciting an early and favourable intervention in the matter and thanking
you in anticipation,
Yours Truly,
k.srinivas.
Secretary
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