I believe that a petition on accesibility was already made to the railway authorities and it included e-ticket booking also. Perhaps it's the time to write a separate petition Since the next election is about two years from now, we can use this as a card for our benifit.
Vetri. On 25/02/2011, Srikanth Bolla <presidentsrika...@gmail.com> wrote: > I completely agree with you. we should make a petition on this issue. > Regards, > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in > [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Amar Jain > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:22 PM > To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in > Subject: [AI] It is the right time to put forward the demand of concessional > booking of e-ticketing. > > All, > I have gone through railway budget complete text, which is available on > internet in PDF. > Following things to be noted down: > 1. Concessions in Rajdhani and Shatabdi are proposed for physically > handicapped persons. nothing more than this is saidout in the speech. > 2. The word accessibility for physically handicapped is used twice in the > budget, so that gives us a sense that they understand what accessibility > means. While developing adarsh stations, this will be taken care off. > 3. E-ticketing will be launched on the portal of cris, full form is central > railway information commission something.... > I believe since this is going to happen, we must put efforts so to insure > that concessional booking is allowed for us. Previously IRCTC had a ground > that concessional bookings are allowed by cris only. > To my understanding it is the efforts of Accessindia which has led to the > minister understanding about accessibility for physically challenged, and > the concessions for Raj and Shatabdi. 100% goes to AI for making them > understand accessibility. > I feel steps should be taken for putting forward our demand of concessional > booking through this portal. > Hope to have healthy discussion on this. > Regards > Amar Jain. > Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! > Question 9 relates to disability. > > > Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! > Question 9 relates to disability. > Get numbers right this time, help the census with correct disability info! Question 9 relates to disability.
