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KOLKATA: At 3.30 pm, minister of state for railways Adhir Chowdhury<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Adhir-Chowdhury> announced the construction of elevators at Metro stations for the aged and physically challenged. Barely 30 minutes later, a man in charge of his security violently shoved a blind man at Howrah station<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Howrah-station> to clear the way for the minister. Luckily for Mahesh Pal of Burdwan, he was steadied by a helping hand. The guard didn't even offer his apologies when challenged by environment activist Subhas Datta<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Subhas-Datta>. Datta lodged a complaint against him with the GRP. "We were returning from Santiniketan on Tuesday evening. The rake of our train was to be used for the Coalfield Express and there was huge rush on the platform when we reached Howrah. My vehicle was parked on the cabway. When we made our way towards it, I saw a visually-impaired person trying to make his way through the crowd of passengers. He was having trouble and I asked him where he was headed. He said that he wanted to get to Platform 6. I started leading him towards that platform when things turned chaotic. Security personnel started pushing people away from the cabway. Even my wife was pushed. I lost my temper when the plainclothes man pushed Pal. He almost fell on the platform. When I shouted at the plainclothes personnel, he said that the minister was coming and everybody should stay away," Datta said. Datta spotted Chowdhury's car soon after this. He was on his way by a special train to Katwa for an Eastern Railway programme. Datta was fuming at this high-handedness by the security man. After guiding Pal to the Mayurakshi Fast Passenger, he went to the platform inspector's chamber to lodge a complaint. There, he was told to go to the GRP. "I lodged a complaint (GD No. 303) and gave a description of the man who pushed Pal. Why should security personnel behave in this manner with citizens whenever a VIP is passing? I had expected an apology from him after he realized that the man he pushed is visually-impaired. Even the minister should look into the matter," Datta added. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.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. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
