{"id":316197,"date":"2019-10-30T10:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316197"},"modified":"2019-10-30T10:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:24:43","slug":"cm-arvind-kejriwal-boards-public-buses-for-feedback-on-free-travel-scheme-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cm-arvind-kejriwal-boards-public-buses-for-feedback-on-free-travel-scheme-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Arvind Kejriwal boards public buses for feedback on free travel scheme for Women"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-316198 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/kejriwal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/kejriwal.jpg 641w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/kejriwal-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/kejriwal-502x420.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday boarded public buses to get feedback from women passengers, a day after Delhi government launched the free-ride scheme for women in DTC buses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While replying to a tweet, Kejriwal said, \u201cI boarded a few buses just now to get direct feedback from women. In addition to students, working women, women going for shopping, I also met a few who have to visit doc regularly. They are also v happy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe presence of bus marshals is creating a sense of safety amongst women and fear amongst eve-teasers,\u201d Kejriwal added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief minister further said, \u201cToday all our sisters in Delhi have become VIPs. Till now only MP and MLAs used to get free tours. Now the journey of all women was also free.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to AAP\u2019s tweet, &#8220;2 lakh 20 thousand women took advantage of the scheme on Tuesday.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday boarded public buses to get feedback from women passengers, a day after Delhi government launched the free-ride scheme for women in DTC buses. While replying to a tweet, Kejriwal said, \u201cI boarded a few buses just now to get direct feedback from women. In addition to students, working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[306,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316197"}],"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=316197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316200,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316197\/revisions\/316200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}