The Railways, which did away with concessions for senior citizens in March 2020, will not be restoring them anytime soon, its minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Vaishnaw said that concessions were continued for various categories of citizens despite the Railways facing repeated losses, but resuming discounts for the rest is “not desirable”.
The minister said this in reply to a question on whether the Railways was looking into proposals to bring back the concessions specifically for senior citizens, students and sports persons with the easing of the Covid-19 pandemic.
