Amenities for Differently-Abled Passengers: Escalators and Lifts, Braille Stickers, Wheelchair Friendly Coaches

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..... Amenities for Differently-Abled Passengers: Escalators and Lifts, Braille Stickers, Wheelchair Friendly Coaches
News and Press Release
Dated:- 26-2-2013

The Minister of Railways Shri Paw .....

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..... an Kumar Bansal has said that to facilitate the boarding of trains and exit from the stations for the differently-abled and the elderly, the Railways proposes to take several measures. These include p .....

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..... rovision of 179 escalators and 400 lifts at A-1 and other major stations, affixing Braille stickers indicating the layout of coaches including toilets, provision of wheel chairs and battery operated v .....

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..... ehicles at more stations and making coaches wheel-chair friendly. Presenting the Railway Budget for 2013-14 in Parliament today he said, in order to provide an employment avenue to the disabled peopl .....

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..... e, he proposed to reserve a specified number of Jan-Sadharan Ticket Booking Sevaks (JTBS) for them, keeping in view the fact that the PCOs at stations have become largely redundant after the mobile re .....

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..... volution in India. MKP/AD/DB (Release ID :92499)
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