Persons with Disabilities demand special bus Bus Passes

To

The Divisional Commissioner
Kashmir Division

Subject: Issue of bus passes for physically challenged persons with Disabilities.

Respected Sir

We the persons with disabilities of Kashmir province are facing immense challenges while travelling in public and government transport. Everywhere in the country the persons with special abilities (disable) mostly blind and orthopaedic disability are given either 50% or 100% concession fare. Recently our group of special children went Delhi. They travelled in local transport there without any fare. Only able escort/caretakers with them were charged fare. It is mandatory there that a person with physical challenge should posses a bus pass. Even without bus passes our special children availed the concession there because their disability was mostly evident.

Here in J&K state we don’t have any bus pass. It would have been a sort of sensitization for transporters to provide concession for differently able people after checking the pass issued by RTO Kashmir. Disability sector has the demand from past decades that special passes may please be issued for seeking concession in bus fare.

It is therefore requested to your highness that kindly strong effective recommendations may please be made in favour of differently able people so that we get special pass from Road Transport Officer Kashmir against submission of our disability certificates and thus can avail concessions in travel/fare as is got by differently able people throughout country.

With Best Regards and Respect


Yours faithfully



Javed Ahmad Tak
Honorary Chairman