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rom: Vaishnavi Jayakumar <jayakumar.vaishn...@gmail.com>
Date: 21 February 2012 08:17
Subject: Aviation Ministry responds - deadline extension till 27th Feb 2012
To: c...@nic.in
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From: JS <asok.ku...@nic.in>
Date: 21 February 2012 06:46
Subject: Re: Deadline extension on inputs for civil aviation policy
To: Vaishnavi Jayakumar <jayakumar.vaishn...@gmail.com>
Cc: dtsec.m...@nic.in
Hello,
I appreciate your concern and will make necessary Corrections. Your suggestions
are always welcome. This is a policy and it aims to give a general orientation
for orderly and planned long term development of the sector. Specifics are
brought out in CARs issued by DGCA.
The request for inputs is kept in Internet to facilitate wider consultations.
At your request, I can extend the deadline by a week. You may send your views
by 27 th Feb latest. Pl do not worry, specific issues can always be addressed
separately.
-Asok Kumar,
JS (A), Ministry of Civil Aviation
On 20-Feb-2012, at 8:21 PM, Vaishnavi Jayakumar <jayakumar.vaishn...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Madam / Sir,
I write this letter with the confidence that the 'common passenger' is
indeed a stakeholder as you have outlined in your citizen's charter
<http://civilaviation.gov.in/cs/groups/public/documents/newsandupdates/moca_000706.pdf>
.
After hearing the news of discrimination of a disabled passenger
<http://dignifiedflyingfordisabled.blogspot.in/2012/02/jeeja-ghosh-prominent-indian-disability.html>
who was offloaded by a private airline (in clear violation of DGCA CAR M(1)
Carriage by Air of Persons with Disability and/ or Persons with Reduced
Mobility <http://dgca.nic.in/cars/D3M-M1.pdf> ) I stumbled onto this document
tucked away in your website seeking stakeholder inputs on the draft civil
aviation policy
<http://civilaviation.gov.in/cs/groups/public/documents/newsandupdates/moca_001393.pdf>
with a deadline of today - 20-2-2012!
As to my knowledge, the disability community is largely unaware of this
policy - indeed the whole of civil society seems to have been excluded from
stakeholder discussions. As your websites are also not GIGW-compliant
<http://web.guidelines.gov.in/documents/pdf/gigw_secy_darpg_sec_cs_psit_secyit_07112011.pdf>
they are currently inaccessible even to the few people with disability with
access to Internet.
Your press release of October 2011
<http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=76755> (below) highlights the
importance of disabled passenger facilitation in the Civil Aviation Vision-2020
documents. Why then have we been excluded from this consultation?
More importantly, I notice with dismay that 'persons with disability'
has been whittled down to 'persons with reduced mobility' in your draft.
This is a huge step backwards and will open the door to far more
dangerous discrimination.
I would urge you to extend the deadline for inputs for this policy so
that we, as stakeholders can address why exactly after the 2008 Rules, the same
mistakes are being made time and again by private airlines.
Also given the poor performance in compliance in this area
specifically, it would be a good idea for you to include the MSJE as a
stakeholder henceforth - specifically the office of the Chief Commissioner for
persons with disabilities and its state counterparts.
Regards,
Vaishnavi Jayakumar
Common Passenger & Concerned Citizen
<https://s2.googleusercontent.com/s2/favicons?domain=pib.nic.in>
pib.nic.in <http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=76755>
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=76755
Ministry of Civil Aviation 18-October, 2011
16:18 IST
Press Information Bureau English Releases
The strategic plan of the Ministry of Civil Aviation for year 2010-15
has been prepared. The strategic plan focus in identified areas such as World
Class infrastructure facilities, establishment of Regulatory Framework in
consonance with international standards, connectivity, skilled manpower
according to the needs of the industry etc. The Passenger facilitation is a
priority area for the Government. Government has issued regulation for
passenger facilitation in following areas.
(i):- Carriage by Air of Persons with Disability and/ or Persons with
Reduced Mobility.
(ii):- Refund of Airline tickets to passengers of public transport
undertakings.
(iii):- Facilities to be provided to passengers by airlines due to
denied boarding, cancellation of flights and delays in flights.
PKM
(Release ID :76755)
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