Indigo Fined Rs 5 Lakh By DGCA For Denying Boarding To Special-Needs Child
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) penalized Indigo Rs 5 lakh on May 28 after the airline denied boarding to a specially-abled youngster at Ranchi airport. A traveler waiting at the airport reported it on Facebook. IndiGo later stated that the boy “could not board the flight…as he was in a state of panic." The DGCA did not consider the airline company's response adequate and proceeded to penalize it.
Tags: IndiGo, boarding, DGCA, penalty, specially-abled children
Courtesy: The Indian Express
Militant Attack Survivor Kashmiri Man Teaches Specially-Abled Children
Source of inspiration to many disabled, 45-year-old paralysed Kashmiri man Javed Ahmad Tak is educating specially-abled kids for free. Hit by militant’s bullet in 1997, the wheelchair-bound Javed opened a school for specially-abled kids in 2006. With donations from NGOs and locals, Javed teaches 120 differently-abled students and owns two busses to ferry them. Interestingly, some of the students have also participated and won medals in… read-more
Tags: Good News, Inspiration, kashmir, specially-abled children
Courtesy: The New Indian Express
Transgender Community Helps Thane Cops To Control Traffic
In a never-before-seen development, around 50 members of the transgender community in Maharashtra accompanied Thane’s Ulhasnagar cops in monitoring the traffic and halting violators. The joint initiative of Ulhasnagar Traffic Police and Vanya Foundation aims to facilitate dialogue between the general public and the transgender community, besides relieving the police. Additionally, as a token of peace, 100 specially-abled children joined to… read-more
Tags: transgender community, traffic police, Thane, specially-abled children
Courtesy: News18