The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it has agreed in principle to formulate a policy for granting railway travel concessions to acid attack survivors to enable them to travel to well-equipped hospitals in cities for periodic treatment.
The top court asked the Centre to consider the issue of granting travel concessions to acid attack survivors “liberally”.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana took note of the submissions of Additional Solicitor General Archana Pathak Dave, appearing for the Ministry of Railways, and asked her to file the draft policy on record within six weeks.
At the outset, the law officer said that a meeting has been held and it has been decided in principle that the acid attack survivors can be given railway concessions.
She said the Centre proposes to extend the benefit under the “patient category” as it has reservations about placing acid attack survivors in a separate category among persons with
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