{"id":11544,"date":"2019-01-03T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T09:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2019-01-03T15:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T09:40:55","slug":"indian-railways-announces-40-fare-concession-for-transgender-senior-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/indian-railways-announces-40-fare-concession-for-transgender-senior-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways announces 40% fare concession for transgender senior citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) January 3 &#8211; The\u00a0<strong>Indian Railways has decided to grant 40\u00a0<\/strong><strong>per cent<\/strong><strong>\u00a0concession in passenger fares to transgender senior citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The concession for a person of the transgender,\u00a0<strong>aged 60 years or above, will be available from January 1, 2019<\/strong>, said Central Railway spokesperson Sunil Udasi.<\/p>\n<p>Till now, such a concession was admissible for men who are 60 years and above, and for women aged 58 years and above.\u00a0<strong>The rate of concession is 40\u00a0<\/strong><strong>per cent<\/strong><strong>\u00a0for men and 50\u00a0<\/strong><strong>per cent<\/strong><strong>\u00a0for women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though a column for transgender (T) was introduced in the reservation form, the\u00a0<strong>concession was not admissible to them.<\/strong><time class=\"dt-updated\" title=\"Time posted: December 27, 2018 14:43:16 (UTC)\" datetime=\"2018-12-27T14:43:16+0000\"><\/time><\/p>\n<p>Source : India Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu (Pahichan) January 3 &#8211; The\u00a0Indian Railways has decided to grant 40\u00a0per cent\u00a0concession in passenger fares to transgender senior citizens.<br \/>\nThe concession for a person of the transgender,\u00a0aged 60 years or above, will be available from January 1, 2019, said Central Railway spokesperson Sunil Udasi.<br \/>\nTill now, such a concession was admissible for men who are 60 years and above, and for women aged 58 years and above.\u00a0The rate of concession is 40\u00a0per cent\u00a0for men and 50\u00a0per cent\u00a0for women.<br \/>\nThough a column for transgender (T) was introduced in the reservation form, the\u00a0concession was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,621,490,11],"tags":[458],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-news","category-slider","category-world","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11546,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions\/11546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}