Thank you Harish sir for pointing this out. >From the Facebook Page of Ministry of Indian Railways, Government of India: RAILWAY EXTENDS E-TICKETING FACILITY FOR BOOKING OF RAIL TICKETS TO DIFFERENTLY - ABLED PERSONS
In order to afford greater convenience in the booking of rail tickets, the Indian Railways has extended the e-ticketing facility to Physically Challenged persons i.e. Orthopaedically handicapped/ Hearing & Speech impaired persons/Mentally Challenged/ Vision Challenged passengers. Such persons desirous of availing e-ticketing facility are requested to submit their original handicapped medical certificate along with two copies of recent passport size photographs, photo-identity proof and proof of Date of Birth in the Commercial Branch of nearest Divisional Railway Manager's Office. After due verification of the certificate/documents, such persons will be issued Photo-identity card through which facilities of e-ticketing can be availed for booking of rail tickets. Some of salient features of the Photo-identity card are as follows. This Photo-identity card is not transferable and must be used only on journey conducted by the person in which this card is issued. The element of concession shall be as per eligibility criteria based on the type of disability in different types of trains and class of travel. This concession is admissible to a single escort if eligible on the type of disability, while traveling with the card holder. This card is eligible for booking of reserved tickets from counters as well as from internet on irctc.co.in. For availing the concession of bookings, the card number shall be mentioned at the time of booking. The card holder and escort accompanying the card holder must carry their respective Photo-identity cards in original during the journey for verification purpose by authorized railway official. At the time of booking concessional tickets at the counter, the card holder must produce the Photo-identity card in original and submit a photocopy of the same. For other details, the general public is requested to click on the Northern Railway's website at: http://www.nr.indianrailways.gov.in/ticker/1418303200282Instructions....pdf (This is a scanned document and the OCR results are not good) Regards, -- Amar Jain. Website: www.amarjain.com Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
