{"id":622657,"date":"2023-12-15T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T05:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=622657"},"modified":"2023-12-15T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T06:27:05","slug":"indian-railways-offers-fare-concessions-to-4-categories-of-people-with-disabilities-says-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-offers-fare-concessions-to-4-categories-of-people-with-disabilities-says-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways offers fare concessions to 4 categories of people with disabilities, says Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday via a written reply that four categories of people with disabilities are offered concessions in passenger fare  from the Indian Railways, as per a report by PTI. <\/p>\n<p>The minister\u2019s response came in response to a query by JD(U) MP Sunil Kumar Pintu. He had inquired about the government\u2019s position on fare concessions for differently-abled individuals.  Pintu questioned whether autistic persons have been excluded from the Railways concession list, despite autism being recognised as a disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday via a written reply that four categories of people with disabilities are offered concessions in passenger fare from the Indian Railways, as per a report by PTI. The minister\u2019s response came in response to a query by JD(U) MP Sunil Kumar Pintu. He had inquired about the government\u2019s position on fare concessions for differently-abled individuals. Pintu questioned whether autistic persons have been excluded from the Railways concession list, despite autism being recognised as a disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}