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Bus Fare concession for differently abled persons in TN
i)All Visually impaired persons are given travel concession to travel up to 100 Kms. to and fro without any condition.
ii) Travel concession is allowed to Mentally Retarded persons to travel with one escort. There is no income ceiling for Mentally Retarded persons to avail this facility.
iii) The Speech and Hearing impaired and Locomotor Differently Abled persons are given travel concession up to 100 Kms to go to schools / colleges / hospitals / training centres / work spot from their residence and return. The income ceiling has been removed.
iv) The Visually impaired / Orthopeadically Differently Abled persons are permitted to travel in State Express Buses once in a year to go to their native places and return. In addition to the above concession, all category of Differently Abled persons are permitted to travel throughout the State by paying 25 percentage of the cost of the ticket and thereby availing 75 percentage of the cost of the ticket as concession without any restriction on number of trips.
How To Avail : District Differently Abled Welfare Officer Grievances if any to be addressed to - Principal Secretary / State Commissioner for the Differently Abled, State Resource cum Training Centre Campus, Jawaharlal Nehru Inner Ring Road, K.K. Nagar, Chennai – 600 078. Ph- 044-24719947 / 48 / 49 District Collector / Managing Director of the Metropolitan / State Transport Corporation.
Validity of the Scheme
Introduced On : May 07, 2012
Valid Upto : Dec 31, 2016
please read more from here
Tamil Nadu Government Portal
i)All Visually impaired persons are given travel concession to travel up to 100 Kms. to and fro without any condition.
ii) Travel concession is allowed to Mentally Retarded persons to travel with one escort. There is no income ceiling for Mentally Retarded persons to avail this facility.
iii) The Speech and Hearing impaired and Locomotor Differently Abled persons are given travel concession up to 100 Kms to go to schools / colleges / hospitals / training centres / work spot from their residence and return. The income ceiling has been removed.
iv) The Visually impaired / Orthopeadically Differently Abled persons are permitted to travel in State Express Buses once in a year to go to their native places and return. In addition to the above concession, all category of Differently Abled persons are permitted to travel throughout the State by paying 25 percentage of the cost of the ticket and thereby availing 75 percentage of the cost of the ticket as concession without any restriction on number of trips.
How To Avail : District Differently Abled Welfare Officer Grievances if any to be addressed to - Principal Secretary / State Commissioner for the Differently Abled, State Resource cum Training Centre Campus, Jawaharlal Nehru Inner Ring Road, K.K. Nagar, Chennai – 600 078. Ph- 044-24719947 / 48 / 49 District Collector / Managing Director of the Metropolitan / State Transport Corporation.
Validity of the Scheme
Introduced On : May 07, 2012
Valid Upto : Dec 31, 2016
please read more from here
Tamil Nadu Government Portal
