{"id":1767,"date":"2025-01-16T04:45:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T04:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irctcportal.in\/?page_id=1767"},"modified":"2025-01-16T04:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T04:45:43","slug":"railway-rules-for-handicapped","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/railway-rules-for-handicapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Rules for Handicapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Railway Concession for Physically Handicapped 2020 | Railway Rules for Handicapped<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Concession to Railway Passengers in Various Categories\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Railways extend travel concessions in passenger fare to 53\u00a0categories of\u00a0passengers and the element of concession ranges from 25% to 100%. The details are as under:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"csdtable\" width=\"594\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>S.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>No<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>CATEGORY OF PERSONS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>PERCENTAGE OF CONCESSION*<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>I<\/strong><\/td>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Disabled Passengers<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Orthopaedically Handicapped \/ Paraplegic persons who cannot travel without escort \u2013 for any purpose<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"3\">\n<ul>\n<li>75% in 2nd, SL, 1st \u00a0Class, 3rd\u00a0 AC, AC chair Car<\/li>\n<li>50% in 1st AC and 2nd AC,<\/li>\n<li>25% in 3rd AC &amp; AC Chair Car of Rajdhani \/ Shatabdi trains<\/li>\n<li>50% in MST &amp; QST<\/li>\n<li>One escort is also eligible for same element of concession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Mentally retarded persons who cannot travel without escort \u2013 for any purpose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>Blind persons travelling alone or with an escort \u2013 for any purpose<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Deaf &amp; Dumb persons (both afflictions together in the same person) travelling alone or with an escort \u2013 for any purpose.<\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>50% in 2nd, SL and 1st \u00a0Class<\/li>\n<li>50% in MST &amp; QST<\/li>\n<li>One escort is also eligible for same element of concession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Concession for Physically Handicapped 2020 | Railway Rules for Handicapped Concession to Railway Passengers in Various Categories\u00a0 Indian Railways extend travel concessions in passenger fare to 53\u00a0categories of\u00a0passengers and the element of concession ranges from 25% to 100%. The details are as under:- S. No CATEGORY OF PERSONS PERCENTAGE OF CONCESSION* I Disabled Passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1767","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reilsolar.com\/irctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}