Haryana gives free travel facility to people with 100 percent disability

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has given another facility to the hundred per cent physically challenged persons as now they would be able to travel free in State Roadways buses also to Delhi and Chandigarh for treatment at hospitals. 

The person accompanying such physically challenged persons would also be entitled to travel free in the State Roadways buses.

While stating this today, Finance Minister, Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav said that a decision to this effect had been taken keeping in view the request made by physically challenged persons that they be given this facility for treatment at Delhi and Chandigarh. He said that earlier the facility of free travel was available to hundred per cent physically challenged persons and an assistant only in the jurisdiction of Haryana State.  

       

He said that now the hundred per cent physically challenged persons could avail this facility for treatment at prominent hospitals like All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi or Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. This facility would be admissible in ordinary buses of the State Roadways.  

Yadav said that Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda had already provided a number of facilities to the handicapped persons including raising of their pension and reservation in government jobs. He said that this decision of the Chief Minister would facilitate the handicapped persons as their demand had been considered the State Government.