11-August-2006 20:13 IST
\nRajya Sabha<\/p>\n
In pursuance of implementation of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, Railways have provided the following seven short-term facilities at 300 stations comprising all \u2018A\u2019 category station and few \u2018B\u2019 category stations. These facilities have been planned for remaining \u2018B\u2019 category stations also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00b7 Standard ramp for Barrier free entry, \u00b7 Earmarking parking lots for vehicles used by Disabled Persons, \u00b7 Non-slippery walkway, \u00b7 Signage, \u00b7 Toilets, \u00b7 Water taps suitable for needs of handicapped person, \u00b7 \u201cMay I help You\u201d Booth, <\/p>\n
Besides, wheel chairs have been provided at important stations. Regarding inter platform connectivity, trolley paths have been provided at the end of the platforms of important stations which have been authorized for use by handicapped persons on wheel chairs with escorts.<\/p>\n
Indian Railways are manufacturing certain passenger coaches, which have a separate compartment specially designed for wheel chair borne passengers. These compartments have facilities like wider door-way, aisle and knee space to permit easy movement of wheel chair,wider berths, toilet adopted to needs of such passengers, arrangements for securing wheel chairs during the journey etc. Some such disabled friendly coaches are already in service. It has been decided to provide one such coach in every mail\/express train during next two years.<\/p>\n
Disabled friendly coaches bear relevant signage and marking notice on the coach body.<\/p>\n
Computerized Passenger Reservation System automatically allots lower berth to the handicapped persons performing their journey on handicapped concessional ticket and middle\/upper berths near the handicapped person to the person accompanying them as escort, subject to availability of such berths at the time of booking. <\/p>\n
After departure of the train, if there are vacant lower berths available in the train, and if any physically handicapped person booked on the authority of handicapped concessional ticket, who has been allotted upper \/middle berth, approaches for allotment of vacant lower berths, the Conductor\/Train Ticket Examiner(TTE) has been authorized to allot the vacant lower berth to them making necessary entries in the chart.<\/p>\n
This information was given by Shri R.Velu, Minister of State for Railways in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today. Source: Press Information Bureau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}