In an unexpected case, a disabled rights activist who helped frame the guidelines to make air travel easier for disabled passengers, was made to get off his wheelchair at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi.
Javed Abidi, who is the chairperson of Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI), was asked to move as his wheelchair had to be X-rayed by the Central Industrial Security Force, which handles security at the airport, according to a report by The Times of India.
The incident happened on Wednesday when Abidi was on his way to board an Air India flight to Colombo for an official meeting. The CISF asked him for his wheelchair in order to screen it and when he protested, he was reportedly asked to comply or risk missing his flight, continues the report.
"This is the first time I am experiencing such a humiliation. The officials started to off-load my luggage and prepared to escort me out of the airport. I finally get off the chair as I was to at tend a crucial meeting. What if it was some paralysed person or someone who couldn't get off," Abidi was quoted as saying by The Times of India.
Ironically, Abidi was instrumental in framing rules for passengers with disability at airports in 2014. The rules were set to ensure that such people faced no discrimination.
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Javed Abidi, who is the chairperson of Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI), was asked to move as his wheelchair had to be X-rayed by the Central Industrial Security Force, which handles security at the airport, according to a report by The Times of India.
The incident happened on Wednesday when Abidi was on his way to board an Air India flight to Colombo for an official meeting. The CISF asked him for his wheelchair in order to screen it and when he protested, he was reportedly asked to comply or risk missing his flight, continues the report.
"This is the first time I am experiencing such a humiliation. The officials started to off-load my luggage and prepared to escort me out of the airport. I finally get off the chair as I was to at tend a crucial meeting. What if it was some paralysed person or someone who couldn't get off," Abidi was quoted as saying by The Times of India.
Ironically, Abidi was instrumental in framing rules for passengers with disability at airports in 2014. The rules were set to ensure that such people faced no discrimination.
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