A woman using a motorised wheelchair was stopped from taking the metro due to confusion over her electric wheelchair design. The incident caused inconvenience and highlighted the challenges faced by people with disabilities in public transportation.
The wheelchair-bound woman named Arushi Singh said that the incident took place on Wednesday where a woman officer at the Kolkata airport asked her to stand up and make her way to a kiosk.
A marriage officer has been suspended after a disabled woman was forced to go up to the second-floor office of a marriage registrar at Khar in Mumbai on her wedding day to complete the formalities.
The activist revealed that she went to get married at the Registrars Office in Khar, but the office was on the second floor with no access for disabled people.