Railway Concession for HIV Positives : Ground Reality

[Guest guest]

Dear Forum,

As we all know that now a days Indian Railways has granted concession for people

living with HIV need to travel by railways for the cause of treatment. The

concession from issues from any ART Center along with one attendant.

Accordingly I also used to collect the concession from LNJP Art Center, New

Delhi as I travel from Gwalior to get my 2nd line ART along with a girl of 10

years, who is also on 2nd line ART. It is our regular practice to get the ticket

earlier including reservation.

So, I approached the ticket counter to get our ticket including reservation, but

the booking refused to make any Seat Reservation as in this category it is

not approved by Railway Authority. The concession is only applicable for

Unreserved General Ticketing !

But, in any other categories like for Disable People or Cancer Patients it is

concession including Seat/Birth Reservation is allowed.

My questions are, if in other categories it is allowed then why not in case of

people living with HIV?

How any serious patient( HIV+) could travel in usually overcrowded Unreserved

General Class?

Indian Railways Authority must rethink to confirm to maintain Equality for all

disadvantaged categories.

Thanking you,

In solidarity,

Snehansu Bhaduri

Coordinator(Volunteer)

Snehalaya Charitable Trust,

Gwalior, M.P.

www.helpchildrenofindia.org.uk

E.mail: snehansu.bhaduri@...

Mob:9229708123,9874693613

C.C. Miss Mamata Banerjee,

Minister for Railways.

[Guest guest]

Dear Snehansu

Re: /message/10595

 

This matter will be taken up in meeting with railway authorities . It is already

in our agenda

Dr B.B.Rewari

MD,FICP,FIACM,FIMSA,FGSI

Sr.Physician,Dr RML Hospital &

National Programme Officer (ART)

National AIDS Control Organistion,

6th Floor, Chandralok Building,

36, Janpath, New Delhi-110001

Tel; 011-23731954, 43509999(O)

Mobile ; 91-9811267610

Fax : 011-23731954,23731746

e-mail: <drbbrewari@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear Bhaduri,

Re: /message/10595

You have raised a matter of extreme importance and this is something that NACO

should take on immideately with the Railways and ensure that this problem is

mitigated.

The logic behind the concession was to act as an enabling action that helped

more people to access ART, whose centers are often far away and scarce.

The whole purpose of this concession would be rendered into an eyewash and

futile if reservations are not allowed on this concession, for it is well known

that the unreserved compartments are unsuitable for travel even by general

population, and is often taken over by the coolie-railwaymen mafia to illegally

sell off entry and seats at a small price.

Thank you again for raising this important issue.

Aditya Bondyopadhyay

E-MAIL: <adit.bond@...>

[Guest guest]

Dear forum

I am Saroja- representing KNP+ , i am a person living with HIV past from 10yrs,

I support the observations on the posting " Railway Concession for HIV Positives

Ground Reality "

I would like to add that HIV +VE person who are not on ART also require

reservation, apart from the ART treatment, there is a need to treat

Opportunistic infections, which has to be treated immediately.

This is a request to include all PLHA'S for the reservation

In Solidarity

Saroja

KNP+ President

Bangalore, Karnataka

e-mail: <puthransaroja@...>