Vijayawada, March 10 -- The All India Newspaper Employees Federation (AINEF) on Tuesday demanded that the union government restore concessional railway passes for accredited journalists in the country.
In a statement, AINEF National Vice-President Chaladi Purnachandra Rao noted that the Railway Minister had announced the cancellation of concessional railway passes for journalists due to COVID-19 in March 2020, and the facility has not been restored so far.
He said that journalists in the country had secured railway passes after a long struggle, but the Railways had deprived them of the facility, which is unjust, he regretted.
Purnachandra Rao opined that while the Government of India is extending incentives worth thousands of crores to c...