Through PTI
BHOPAL: A Madhya Pradesh Congress chief on Sunday wrote to the state Meeting speaker announcing he used to be giving up his MLA railway concession because the Centre had achieved away with such norms for senior electorate.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had, on July 20, knowledgeable the Lok Sabha that the price of granting concessions “weighed closely” at the transporter and “therefore, extending the scope of concessions to all classes of passengers, together with senior electorate, isn’t fascinating”.
MLA Jitu Patwari, in his letter to Speaker Girish Gautam, stated the railway ministry will have to repair senior electorate’ concessions straight away.
The concession of fifty consistent with cent in price ticket costs for ladies above the age of 58 and 40 consistent with cent for males within the 60-plus age phase used to be stopped all over the COVID-19 pandemic and has now been scrapped altogether, Patwari stated in his letter.
“The railways is making plans to scale back losses at the price of senior electorate. I’m wondering why the concession for elected representatives, previous and provide has no longer been scrapped. Is not this inflicting losses to the railways,” he requested.
BHOPAL: A Madhya Pradesh Congress chief on Sunday wrote to the state Meeting speaker announcing he used to be giving up his MLA railway concession because the Centre had achieved away with such norms for senior electorate.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had, on July 20, knowledgeable the Lok Sabha that the price of granting concessions “weighed closely” at the transporter and “therefore, extending the scope of concessions to all classes of passengers, together with senior electorate, isn’t fascinating”.
MLA Jitu Patwari, in his letter to Speaker Girish Gautam, stated the railway ministry will have to repair senior electorate’ concessions straight away.
The concession of fifty consistent with cent in price ticket costs for ladies above the age of 58 and 40 consistent with cent for males within the 60-plus age phase used to be stopped all over the COVID-19 pandemic and has now been scrapped altogether, Patwari stated in his letter.
“The railways is making plans to scale back losses at the price of senior electorate. I’m wondering why the concession for elected representatives, previous and provide has no longer been scrapped. Is not this inflicting losses to the railways,” he requested.