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India’s first wheelchair taxis to roll out in Goa
December 23 (TravelAndy): In an attempt to make Goa accessible for tourists with mobility challenges, Enable Travel, a travel company serving people with mobility issues, has joined hands with Ezy Mov, India’s first point-to-point wheelchair taxi service provider, to offer guided tours in wheelchair taxis.
Five such vehicles will be run in the first phase in January 2019.
Debolin Sen, head, Enable Travel, said that Goa serves as one of the most popular Indian travel destinations for both domestic and international tourists, but lack of transport facilities for people with mobility issues, including elderly travellers, makes them unable to experience it in its broadest sense.
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Focus on travel for the disabled
September 26 (TravelAndy): India’s Kerala state along with South India Tourism Foundation is organising ‘Sugama Sancharan’ , a barrier-free travel event for differently-abled persons, on September 27.
A total of 100 differently-abled persons, from training and rehabilitation centres of the Union labour ministry and Social Welfare and Kerala State Handicapped Welfare Corporation, will be taken on walking tour to Kanakakkunnu Palace and to Veli Tourist Village for sight-seeing and boating, said The Hindu newspaper.
Additionally, senior citizens of the state will also be included in this walkathon, which takes the number of participants to 200. Continue reading Focus on travel for the disabled
Indian Railways talk disabled passengers
May 11 (TravelAndy): A panel set up by Indian Railways will take up the issue of how to make train travel across the country easier for people with disabilities, said reports.
The chairman of the the committee, industrialist Ratan Tata, reportedly assured National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Disabled People that he would take it up at the first meeting of Kaya Kalp, which is the name of the panel.
Kaya Kalp has been created to help better the services of India’s state-owned railways. It’s first meeting will be held on Tuesday in New Delhi.
This is positive development at a time when most European cities are built with people on wheelchairs in mind. There is always an elevator near a flight of stairs or escalator. Even trains and buses are build in such a way so that temporary ramps can be used by such people to get on or off.