Chennai: Recently, when three passengers with disabilities, B Meenakshi, Rajiv Ranjan and T M N Deepak, while travelling from Chennai to Hyderabad by a private airline, had problems when the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) denied them permission to travel with their own wheelchairs owing to security reasons. They were asked to shift to the wheelchair which the air operator provided. They are incidentally activists from different organisations for the disabled like Equals, EKTHA and Tamil Nadu State Federation of Disabled People (TNSDF).
“The civil aviation guidelines clearly state that people with disability should not be moved from their wheelchairs specially designed for the person. Even otherwise, it is necessary to consider how difficult it is for us to shift from one wheelchair. There are technologies available in other countries which make the wheelchair easily detectable. Those facilities are available in Chennai and many places in India,” said Meenakshi during a meet organised by EKTHA foundation on Sunday.
08/10/13 New Indian Express
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“The civil aviation guidelines clearly state that people with disability should not be moved from their wheelchairs specially designed for the person. Even otherwise, it is necessary to consider how difficult it is for us to shift from one wheelchair. There are technologies available in other countries which make the wheelchair easily detectable. Those facilities are available in Chennai and many places in India,” said Meenakshi during a meet organised by EKTHA foundation on Sunday.
08/10/13 New Indian Express
