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Wednesday 27 February 2013

More facilities for differently-abled

Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Tuesday announced mega development plans including installation of escalators and lifts at select stations, set up cleanliness benchmarks and upgrade stations to the ‘Adarsh’ (ideal)level.
The minister also announced big plans to make stations disabled-friendly. The railways would install 179 escalators, 400 lifts at A-1 category and major stations to make boarding and deboarding easy for the differently-abled and the elderly. These stations would also be equipped with Braille stickers indicating the position of coaches and toilets. Facilities like wheel chairs and battery-operated vehicles would be made available at more stations.
Executive lounges would be set up at Visakhapatnam, Patna, Nagpur, Agra, Jaipur, Bilaspur and Bangalore in 2013-14.
The rail minister also announced that special attention would be paid to stations in National Capital Region(NCR). `100 crore would be spent to revamp the Delhi, New Delhi and Hazrat Nizamuddin stations. Bansal said the railways will take up foot-over-bridge projects on priority basis, if state governemnts are willing to invest. A funding scheme would be designed for such projects.
Job for Disabled
The railways will carve out a specified number of Jan Sadharan Ticket Booking Sevak posts for the disabled, as the PCOs at stations have largely become irrelevant with the proliferation of mobile phones, the minister said.
 

Source : the New Indian Express , New Delhi ( 27th feb 2013 )

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