Thank you all for shareing your experiences. This will encourage Sweety. I have very bad mobility and so cant get around anywhere unassisted. No courage on my end. But I know there are situations where one just have to go. I salute all my visually impaired friends who have the huge courage to go on their own. Just always pray for your safety all the time. Take care all of you. Warmly Preeti
Preeti Monga Director Mobile: +91 9871701646 Landline: 011 22781446 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. Training Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting Corporate ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including demystifying workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel and Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. We assure high quality service marked with excellence and complete customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of vishal M Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 11:43 PM To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues concerning the disabled. Subject: Re: [AI] Visually impaired girl escapes accident at metro station The same incident happened with me at akshardham metro station. It was really scary, though I acted fast and pulled my leg out in time. It was just like a flash, I got hurt on the leg but after the incident what was most frightening was to imagine that what would had happened if I could not had been able to get my leg out on time and the train had moved. I also have retinitis pigmentosa and I travel by metro regularly. After the incident I thought of things I could have done better in this case. Sharing it here so that it can help anyone who might unluckily get into such situation, because at that time the mind just go blank I realised that I should had first asked the people on the metro to block the door or myself had done it by putting bag I was carrying, on the door way. As the train does not move till all its doors gets closed. This would had made me safe even if I would had not been able to take my leg out in time. Dear Peerti Ma'am, I know what a heavy blow it is to the confidence to travel independently but we have to deal with it, be strong and a bit more cautious in future. I wish Ms. Sweety Bhalla recover soon of this incident. Thanks, Vishal On Mar 1, 2014 10:36 PM, "Preeti Monga" <[email protected]> wrote: > Very sad I spoke with Sweety a short while back and she is very hurt and > very shaken. She is almost losing her confidence of travelling > independently around! In case that happens, what will become of her? How > does she remain a contributing member of the society? And who then is going > to look after her and her little daughter? > > The gap is enormous where she fell and there are no raised borders to > indicate the end of the platform to indicate to blind passengers that there > is the danger of falling into the rails? > > In fact not only children, but this could have happened to anyone! In the > kind of rush at office hours in the Metros, even people who can see cant > actually make out where they are placing their feet! > > I think instead of playing the blame game, the authorities might as well > do > something about this kind of situation. It maybe one of these days, the > next > person to slip down that gap is a dear one of the people who are today > responsible to be able to bring about these small improvements for blind > commuters, and of whom there are many! > Warmly > Preeti > > Preeti Monga > Director > > > > Mobile: +91 9871701646 > Landline: 011 22781446 > E-mail: [email protected] > Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org > Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. Training > -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - Corporate > ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including demystifying > workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel and > Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. > > We assure high quality service marked with excellence and complete > customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Vikas Kapoor > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2014 5:32 PM > To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issuesconcerning > the disabled. > Subject: [AI] Visually impaired girl escapes accident at metro station > > Visually impaired girl escapes accident at metro station > Sowmiya Ashok > > The gap between the platform and a Delhi Metro train got the better of a > visually impaired commuter on Thursday evening as she was about to board > the > train at the Nehru Place metro station. Sweety Bhalla, a government > employee, who was entering the train found her legs collapsing into the gap > - which was not exceptionally large. But for two male co-passengers, who > hurriedly pulled her up, she could have suffered grievous injuries. The > incident happened around 5-20 p.m. > > "I put a leg forward thinking I will step on the train but my left leg went > in completely into the gap between the platform and the train. It was so > unexpected, I couldn't understand and when I was pulled up I felt bruises > on > my right ankle, knee and elbow," she said. Fortunately for Ms. Bhalla, her > co-passengers helped her up before the train's doors shut on her. > > A resident of Karol Bagh, Ms. Bhalla travels from Jhandewalan to Nehru > Place > and back on a daily basis. "The gaps at all stations should be uniform so > that no untoward incident happens. This is especially dangerous for young > children who can fall into the gap while boarding or de-boarding the train > at rush hours," she said. "The problem is that in some places the gap is > smaller and at others it's larger. There should be some uniformity," she > added. > > Ms. Bhalla said similar incidents have happened twice before at Rajiv Chowk > and Udyog Bhavan stations. "There is a lot of rush especially at stations > such as Rajiv Chowk. The Metro should have segregated entry and exit points > into trains so it helps manage the crowds in an orderly manner." > > Ms. Bhalla, who suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, which has rendered her > blind since birth, was part of a committee that did an external audit on > the > first line of the Delhi Metro that connected Welcome and Kashmere Gate. > > "I was part of a 'disability committee' that provided inputs to the Delhi > Metro on how to make stations friendly for Persons with Disability. We had > then reviewed three stations," she said. > > Following Thursday's incident, she rang the helpline number of the Delhi > Metro and was told that she will be contacted after the footage from the > station is reviewed. > > A Delhi Metro spokesperson said that at the point of frisking, Ms. Bhalla > was asked by CISF staff if she needed assistance to reach the train but she > declined because her colleague had accompanied her to the station. "We do > make regular announcements asking passengers to mind the gap between the > platform and the train. The passenger had called the helpline number but it > takes some time to review the footage," said the spokesperson. > > However, Ms. Bhalla denies Delhi Metro's version that she was asked if she > needed assistance. > > > > > > > > > > http://www.dailypioneer.com/city > > Vikas Kapoor, > Mobile: (+91) 9891098137 > Skype Id: dl_vikas > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessind > ia.org.in > > > 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 > > > Disclaimer: > 1. 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