Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Tuesday 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 provision 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 vehicles at more stations and making coaches wheel-chair
friendly.
Presenting the Railway Budget for 2013-14 in Parliament, Bansal said, in
order to provide an employment avenue to the disabled people, 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 revolution in
India.
Source : Sify ( 26th Feb 2013 )
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