Sanjeev -----Original message----- From: Suhas Karnik Sent: 01/03/2012, 9:09 pm To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] FW: WHY THE STATUS QUO WILL NEVER CHANGE: PART 2
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:50:55 +0530 Subject: WHY THE STATUS QUO WILL NEVER CHANGE: PART 2 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Dear Friends, It has been exactly one week since a person with Cerebral Palsy was forced to deplane from a Spicejet flight from Kolkata to Goa. Since the incident, much has been written and said about it, both in the disability sector and in the media. SO FAR: 1: Spicejet 'apologising' for the 'inconvenience', announced that they will start an internal inquiry into the incident. 2: Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD) issued a show cause notice to Spicejet. 3: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) wrote to Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation seeking an inquiry into the incident and for action to be taken against those guilty. 4: After facing flak, Minister, MSJE finally met his Civil Aviation counterpart to discuss the issue. 5: Ministry of Civil Aviation has been silent on this issue. 6: The second time Chairperson of National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation & Multiple Disabilities has not utterted a single word so far! TANGIBLE RESULTS TILL NOW: NOTHING LATEST NEWS: SPICEJET HAS FINISHED ITS 'FORMAL INQUIRY'. Here is the bombshell. Spicejet has said, "We regret the inconvenience caused to the passenger as the entire incident was inadvertent. Further to the inquiry, we have sensitised all our employees on the needs of these passengers (suffering from Cerebral Palsy) for better care." "In order to improve general understanding of Cerebral Palsy, Spicejet will make a donation of Rs. 1 lakh to a charity which supports in improving the understanding of the disease," the spokesperson added. The full media report is appended below. Please note that for Spicejet, this incident was only an 'inconvenience'. That too, caused 'inadvertently'. To a young lady "suffering" from a "disease" called Cerebral Palsy. They already have 'sensitised' ALL their employees and incase any further awareness is required to be created in the country on this "disease", they have magnanimously decided to contribute a whopping sum of Rupees 1 lakh to a "charity". This extraordinary development provides an excellent opportunity for the Civil Aviation Minister, the Social Justice Minister, the Civil Aviation Secretary, the Social Justice Secretary, the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, the National Trust Chairperson, Padma Shri Dr. Mithu Alur and Padma Shri Dr. Sudha Kaul to form yet another Committee in order to decide as to what should be now done with this more than generous offer made by Spicejet!!! -- Communication Unit: National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) A -77, South Extension Part II New Delhi - 110 049, India Tel.: 91-11-26265647 / 26265648 Websites: www.ncpedp.org and www.dnis.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lack of info on Cerebral Palsy led to woman's offloading: Spice http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_lack-of-info-on-cerebral-palsy-led-to-woman-s-offloading-spice_1654416 The Spicejet today said the incident of a differently-abled woman being offloaded from its Kolkata-Mumbai flight last Sunday was "inadvertent" and due to lack of information about and understanding of Cerebral Palsy. The airline said "the formal inquiry in this regard has been completed. We regret the inconvenience caused to the passenger as the entire incident was inadvertent." "Further to the inquiry, we have sensitised all our employees on the needs of these passengers (suffering from Cerebral Palsy) for better care," a Spicejet spokesperson said in a statement. "In order to improve, general understanding of Cerebral palsy, Spicejet will make a donation of Rs1 lakh to a charity which supports in improving the understanding of the disease," the spokesperson said. J Ghosh (40) was not allowed by the crew members of Spicejet's Kolkata-Mumbai flight to fly alleging she was a mental patient and that it was not safe for the airline to allow her inside the aircraft on Sunday last at the NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata. After being denied the permission to fly, Ghosh had lodged a complaint with SpiceJet authorities. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in hi we should ask them, how did they sensitised all there employees in just 1 week. How did they know employees are sensitise. Any way to measure outcome of the sensitisation i mean we can't wait for another reported incident before many unreported incident. How will they insure there new employees are sensitise? Publish how the 1 lak r.s. Was spend. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. 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