Railways told to boost facilities for disabled

Delhi | Tuesday | 25th July, 2017

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“You need to do much more,” it told the Railways, which claimed it had re-designed 3,200 out of nearly one lakh luggage coaches to be made disabled-friendly. When the Gorakhdham Express finally arrived, he, however, couldn’t enter the coach for the differently-abled as it was locked from inside. more-inTreat the differently-abled as the “most treasured” passengers, the Delhi High Court on Monday told the Railways which it blamed for a visually impaired man missing his M.Phil entrance exam as he could not board a reserved coach since it was locked from inside. On July 4, when he arrived at the station, the train was running late. “It is the Indian Railways which prevented him from taking the exam,” the court observed during the hearing of the PIL which it initiated on its own after coming across a news report in the matter..