Mamata’s gift to poor: Rs 20 per month rail pass
Trinamul Congress president Mamata Banerjee, in an unusual move, assumed charge as railway minister on Tuesday not at her New Delhi Rail Bhavan office but at the headquarters of the Eastern Railway at Kolkata’s Fairlie Place — a stone’s throw away from Writers’ Buildings, seat of the state’s Left Front government in West Bengal.
Keeping an earlier promise, Ms Banerjee announced special Rs 20 monthly passes for all those with a monthly income below Rs 500. “This is for small vendors, labourers and other poor people who cannot afford tickets and regular passes. The railways will give them economic freedom to travel by train,” she said.
She also announced a new train for West Bengal, named Kandari Express after the famous poem by Nazrul Islam, whose birth anniversary fell Tuesday. It will run daily between Howrah and Digha in a month’s time.
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Keeping an earlier promise, Ms Banerjee announced special Rs 20 monthly passes for all those with a monthly income below Rs 500. “This is for small vendors, labourers and other poor people who cannot afford tickets and regular passes. The railways will give them economic freedom to travel by train,” she said.
She also announced a new train for West Bengal, named Kandari Express after the famous poem by Nazrul Islam, whose birth anniversary fell Tuesday. It will run daily between Howrah and Digha in a month’s time.
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2 Comments:
What a start by our new railway minister ! Such sops do not impress anyone, not even the poor. They want better management of trains , well organised railway stations , cleaner , efficient, and better waiting rooms . Its appaling to see the poor in hundreds sleeping on the platforms.
I wish the honourable minister would visit the Delhi railway station . Its a slum surrounded by slums !!!
uch a worst facility , just a lure to get more publicity, its not going to help indian railway in any way neither to public but public will misuse it.
Already there is great chaos i trains and this descision will rather increase more problems and will contribute to mismanagement.
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