Kolkata: Kolkata airport has a special assistance desk and a special path for priority security checks with disabilities and elderly leaflets.
This facility will also serve pregnant women and single women traveling with children.
The aid table at the entrance of the airport will be guarded by specially trained central security forces.
They will escort passengers with special needs and assistance until the gate rises, if needed.
“Not only people with disabilities, even those who have a pacemaker or implants can approach the counter with relevant documents and our personnel will help them pass a security check without bother,” said a senior airport official.
This step followed the Supreme Court’s verdict in December 2021 where he asked the airport throughout the country to become more empathomed on leaflets with special needs and bring a more human approach while serving them.
The Supreme Court ruled that people with disabilities should not be asked to remove their body members or prosthetic calipers during the security check at the airport, or they are not manually appointed without approval.
It also said security checks must be made without violating the dignity of the person.
In October 2021, actor Sudha Chandran had uploaded a video on Instagram and marked Modi PM about trials at Mumbai airport where he was asked to remove his body members.
CISF has tweeted the apology the next day.
Given this background, the CISF facilities at Kolkata Airport are a big step forward.
“Before roll-out, we have several meetings with defective rights activists and some special needs of people.
Calipers are no longer deleted and at 90% of cases, we don’t ask for the passengers to eliminate their prosthetics.
But there are some cases.
But there are several cases Cases where illegal items are smuggled on prosthetics.
We take special care in checking them with metal detectors and other steps and prosthetics opened in cases rarely in the presence of airlines, airports and officials, “officials said.
Activist Disability Rights Based on Jeeja Ghosh City, whose case against a private airline who was forcibly lowered from flight in 2012 led to the assessment of landmarks in 2016, highlighted two important rights of defective travelers – accessibility and also the next decision.
In prosthetic limbs or calipers in December 2021 – was a special invitation at Kolkata Airport on Thursday with Sayomdeb Mukherjee.
Duo that represents enable India, an NGO, inaugurates a help table counter near the Departure Gate No.
3 and special lines for security checks at SHA-4.
“It is a great moment to be present in the inauguration of separate channels and helps the table for people with reduced mobility at Kolkata Airport.
This is a large initiative and will be far in ironing many problems faced by disabled people.
When airport transit , “Ghosh said.