{"id":312841,"date":"2019-06-03T09:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312841"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:08:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:08:44","slug":"free-travel-in-metro-dtc-and-cluster-buses-for-women-in-delhi-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/free-travel-in-metro-dtc-and-cluster-buses-for-women-in-delhi-arvind-kejriwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Free travel in metro, DTC and cluster buses for Women in Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312842 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Arvind-kej-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/Arvind-kej-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/Arvind-kej-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/Arvind-kej-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/Arvind-kej-627x420.jpg 627w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/Arvind-kej.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced that women in Delhi will be allowed free travel in public buses and metro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief minister said, the scheme to provide free rides has been announced so that women have safe travel experience in Delhi. This will ensure that women can access modes of transport which they were not able to, due to high prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Clarifying that subsidy will not be imposed on anyone, Kejriwal said, those women who can afford these modes of transport can buy tickets and forgo subsidy so others could benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The expenses of the scheme will be borne by Delhi government, the chief minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the scheme is just a proposal and has not been launched yet. Kejriwal said, adding to it \u201cthe officials have been given a week to come up with a detailed plan on implementing the proposal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We are making an effort to start this within 2-3 months. We are also seeking suggestions from people regarding implementation,&#8221; Kejriwal added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The announcement came days after Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s AAP lost in all seven Lok Sabha seats in the recently concluded national election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced that women in Delhi will be allowed free travel in public buses and metro. The chief minister said, the scheme to provide free rides has been announced so that women have safe travel experience in Delhi. This will ensure that women can access modes of transport which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[304,306,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312843,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312841\/revisions\/312843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}