Konkan Railway being a responsible Corporate Citizen, has introduced a unique ‘Sarathi Seva’ service for the physically challenged passengers.
In this service, wheel-chair along with an Assistant is provided free of cost to physically challenged passengers at nominated stations from coach to exit and vice versa. At present this scheme is available at Chiplun, Ratnagiri, Karmali, Madgaon and Udupi stations. To avail this service, Passengers are required to simply send an SMS with their names and journey particulars to Mobile No. 9664044456. The rest is taken care of by Konkan Railway. So far about 175 physically challenged passengers have availed of this service. Source: http://www.udayavani.com/english/news/mangaluru/125357/konkan-railway-introduces-%E2%80%98sarathi-seva%E2%80%99-service-physically-challenged-passengers Celebrating Louis Braill birthday, Jan. 4th. 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/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] 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..
