It’s never too late to travel and follow your dreams, especially air travel. Madhya Pradesh is encouraging its senior citizens to fly to popular pilgrimage sites by funding their air travel packages. Well, it’s now become the first state in India to fund air travel for its senior citizens as they head to the pilgrimage site, Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh.
Madhya Pradesh Offers Free Air Travel For Senior Citizens On Their Pilgrimage
A report by NDTV sheds light on Madhya Pradesh fulfilling the dream pilgrimage vacation of many senior citizens in the state. As per the report, 32 senior citizens travelled under the state’s Mukhyamantri Tirth-Darshan Yojana. The Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan flagged off the travel programme at Bhopal’s Raja Bhoj Airport. The senior citizens flew from Bhopal in MP to Prayagraj in UP, with flight tickets completely sponsored by the state.
नर्मदा वासी चले गंगा मैया के दर्शन के लिए
नर्मदे हर
जय गंगा मैया pic.twitter.com/2O7NG6RBZP— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) May 21, 2023
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The group consisted of 24 men and eight women, has senior citizens fly by air in different batches until July 2023 from various airports in Madhya Pradesh as part of phase one. 72-year-old Ram Singh Kushwaha reveals to NDTV that their dream to fly by air at least once in their lifetime is being fulfilled. Another senior citizen travelling stated that he was flying for the first time anywhere outside his state, Madhya Pradesh.
This Is Happening For The First Time In India
The MP Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan stated that his resolution to send senior citizens on a pilgrimage with their air travel taken care of has finally been fulfilled. So, he announced that elderly people like his parents could travel on pilgrimage by aeroplane. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the Mukhyamantri Teerth-Darshan Yojana scheme all the way back in 2012.
माताराम, आप सबके साथ मेरा भी तीर्थाटन हो रहा है, आपके तीर्थदर्शन का पुण्य सारे मध्यप्रदेश को मिलेगा।
हर हर गंगे
नर्मदे हर pic.twitter.com/Ztr6lMNhMB— Shivraj Singh Chouhan (@ChouhanShivraj) May 21, 2023
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Today, senior citizens from Madhya Pradesh can go for pilgrimage free of cost on aeroplanes and not just special trains, which was happening in the past. This is the very first-time senior citizens are getting to fly free of cost by air in Madhya Pradesh and getting to fulfil their air travel dreams. The CM even bid all the excited passengers goodbye as they blessed him for fulfilling their travel dreams.
So, would you want such schemes to come to your state too?
Cover Image Courtesy: @ChouhanShivraj/ Twitter
First Published: May 22, 2023 5:54 PM