The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has outfitted its 14 airports throughout the nation with ambulifts in a bid to assist air passengers with diminished mobility in boarding an plane. Ambulifts which are ‘made-in-India’ have been deployed at these airports as they don’t have aerobridge amenities, the authority mentioned in a press release on Wednesday. According to a PTI report, the 14 airports the place this facility is on the market are Dehradun, Bagdogra, Jodhpur, Patna, Darbhanga, Imphal, Gorakhpur, Vijayawada, Port Blair, Belgaum, Silchar, Rajkot, Jharsuguda and Hubli. Airports in Leh, Dimapur, Kanpur, Jorhat, Jamnagar and Bhuj could have this facility by the top of this month, the AAI additional talked about.
According to the authority, the ambulifts can cater to 6 wheelchairs in addition to two stretchers together with an attendant at a time and is fitted with heating, air flow and AC system. Each unit is procured at a price of Rs 63 lakh, because the AAI is providing ambulift facility at a nominal token cost to the working airways, the authority mentioned. The initiative of offering ambulifts has been taken up by the AAI beneath the Accessible India marketing campaign of the central authorities as a way to facilitate air passengers with diminished mobility, divyang travellers on wheelchair and flyers on stretchers throughout their air journey, it added.
Recently, the Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M. Scindia and Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu flagged off the primary flight of Made in India HAL Dornier Do-228 to attach airports in addition to ALGs of the Northeast area of the nation. The flight might be operated from Dibrugarh within the state of Assam to Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh after which to Lilabari in Assam. On the identical day, the Union Minister of Civil Aviation and the Chief Minister of the Assam state Himanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated the primary Flying Training Organization (FTO) in Lilabari, Assam, for the North Eastern Region.
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