Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Fwd: Luxemburg Free Bus train and tram travel for all
In Luxembourg everyone gets free bus train and tram travel, including seniors
Need another reason to plan a vacation in Luxembourg? The tiny European country is set to become the first country to make all public transport free.
This will probably make you want to visit Luxembourg on your next family vacation: The tiny EU country is seeking to make travel free on its trains, trams and buses as part of efforts to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution. The re-elected coalition government of liberal Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said "free public transport will be introduced in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg's territory" from early 2020.
Press reports said the traffic problem was a major challenge for politicians seeking election as congestion was set to worsen with population growth in Luxembourg. Luxembourg's transport ministry said it cost 491 million euros a year to run public transport, with ticket sales and subscriptions bringing in 40 million euros.
Georges Merenz, who heads the FNCTTFEL-Landesverband, Luxembourg's main transport union, expressed concerns that the government plan would lead to job losses if nobody was needed to sell tickets. "As long as it is not cleared up, we cannot accept that," Merenz told AFP. He added he was also concerned people in rural areas would not benefit from free travel.
A meeting is planned for Monday between his union and the minister in charge of mobility and public works, the ecologist Francois Bausch. In January 2013, Tallinn, Estonia became the first capital city in the European Union to give its residents a free ride on public transport. Tallinn's nearly 420,000 registered residents are entitled to ride all municipal busses and tramlines free of charge after buying a special green transport pass for just two euros ($2.60). Public transport was already free for senior citizens.
In 2016, more than 100 million passengers used public transport in this tiny prosperous country of 600,000 people sandwiched between Belgium, France and Germany. Luxembourg absorbs daily 190,000 workers and employees from neighbouring countries, half of them in France and the other half split between Belgium and Germany.
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Orissa Free Pilgrimage to senior citizens. All the way to Rameshwaram
Bhubaneswar: A special pilgrimage train for senior citizens, under the Baristha Nagarika Tirtha Yatra Yojana (BNTYY), has been flagged off from Sambalpur station by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday.
The train, flagged off through video conferencing today from the state secretariat, will take senior citizens to Rameshwaram and Madurai in Tamil Nadu. As many as 970 senior citizens from the western region of the state boarded the train.
Briefing media persons, Odisha Tourism Minister Ashok Chandra Panda said, "The Odisha government had decided to start pilgrimage trains for senior citizens under the Baristha Nagarika Tirtha Yatra Yojana."
Dec 7, 2018
"Keeping that promise, it is being implemented since 2016 and including today's it is the eighth pilgrimage train. In the previous years, there were three such trains while from this year it will be six trains," Panda said and added that the next pilgrimage train will be flagged off in January next year."
Notably, senior citizens from below poverty line (BPL) categories are given 100 per cent concessions under the BNTYY scheme. People in the age group of 60-75 years are eligible to avail the benefit of the plan.
The Odisha government has also signed an MoU with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation for the pilgrimage plan on the basis of which the company will provide all requisite facilities to the pilgrims in the train.
http://pragativadi.com/pilgrimage-train-for-senior-citizens-flagged-off-from-sambalpur-rly-station/
Dr P Vyasamoorthy
040-27846631 / 09490804278
In Cantonment Area where I live we pay Rs 450 per month for water supply whereas GHMC neighboring residents pay less than half.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Delhi - free pilgrimage for seniors
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Dr P Vyasamoorthy
040-27846631 / 09490804278
040-27846631 / 09490804278
In Cantonment Area where I live we pay Rs 450 per month for water supply whereas GHMC neighboring residents pay less than half.
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