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[ghsayan]

A physically challenged passenger was assaulted and pushed out of a government bus at Dakshineswar on Saturday evening.

Adding insult to injury, fellow passengers laughed at his predicament. Humiliated and hurt, the victim managed to make his way to a police station and file a complaint.

Bidyut Kumar Dey’s travails began after he boarded a South Bengal State Transport Corporation bus (WB 11-A-9258) at Dakshineswar. The bus was headed to Garia. Trouble started when Dey, a national awardee for trekking expeditions to the Himalayas, produced his disability concession card.

Refusing to acknowledge the government-issued card, the conductor abused him and began pushing him towards the gate.

The 54-year-old, who had lost his left leg below the knee in an accident at the age of 14, struggled to maintain balance. His fellow passengers, instead of helping, laughed and made fun of him as the conductor called him a "beggar".

Feeling utterly humiliated, Dey decided to get off at Shyambazar. But as he stepped down from the foot board, the conductor gave him a shove from behind, sending him hurtling towards the pavement railings. A startled Dey somehow managed to avoid crashing into the iron rails by grabbing at them.

The conductor, who claimed that his name was Uttam Samanta, even threatened to beat up Dey if he continued arguing. Seething with anger, Dey approached a traffic constable on duty at the five-point crossing.

But, instead of stopping the bus, the constable asked him to lodge a complaint at the nearest police station.

Determined to bring the culprit to book, Dey lodged a complaint at Shyampukur police station.


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A physically challenged passenger was assaulted and pushed out of a government bus at Dakshineswar on Saturday evening.

Adding insult to injury, fellow passengers laughed at his predicament. Humiliated and hurt, the victim managed to make his way to a police station and file a complaint.

Bidyut Kumar Dey’s travails began after he boarded a South Bengal State Transport Corporation bus (WB 11-A-9258) at Dakshineswar. The bus was headed to Garia. Trouble started when Dey, a national awardee for trekking expeditions to the Himalayas, produced his disability concession card.

Refusing to acknowledge the government-issued card, the conductor abused him and began pushing him towards the gate.

The 54-year-old, who had lost his left leg below the knee in an accident at the age of 14, struggled to maintain balance. His fellow passengers, instead of helping, laughed and made fun of him as the conductor called him a "beggar".

Feeling utterly humiliated, Dey decided to get off at Shyambazar. But as he stepped down from the foot board, the conductor gave him a shove from behind, sending him hurtling towards the pavement railings. A startled Dey somehow managed to avoid crashing into the iron rails by grabbing at them.

The conductor, who claimed that his name was Uttam Samanta, even threatened to beat up Dey if he continued arguing. Seething with anger, Dey approached a traffic constable on duty at the five-point crossing.

But, instead of stopping the bus, the constable asked him to lodge a complaint at the nearest police station.

Determined to bring the culprit to book, Dey lodged a complaint at Shyampukur police station.


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[THOMASJACOB]

What type of workd and are we living today?????????

A big SHAME.

Just the other day my visually impaired colleague in my work place was narrating to me how one of his visually impaired friends got chaeted at the supermarket or grocery stores................

The payment collection person told him that he is taking 5 Rs of his sodexho coupons when in fact he took away 50 Rupees. The VI person realised that he has been cheated once he reached home

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Warm Regards
Thomas Jacob

What type of workd and are we living today?????????

A big SHAME.

Just the other day my visually impaired colleague in my work place was narrating to me how one of his visually impaired friends got chaeted at the supermarket or grocery stores................

The payment collection person told him that he is taking 5 Rs of his sodexho coupons when in fact he took away 50 Rupees. The VI person realised that he has been cheated once he reached home

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Warm Regards
Thomas Jacob

[srividyaa]

Untill righteousness is imbibed in oneself such incidents will incur somewhere or the other.  When normal people arenot even  treating their disabled counterparts  as a human , how can we expect any respect from them?

Untill righteousness is imbibed in oneself such incidents will incur somewhere or the other.  When normal people arenot even  treating their disabled counterparts  as a human , how can we expect any respect from them?

[Kr_iyer]

Hi,

I always thought Kolkata is a bit sensitive towards Disabled. This kind of news is pretty bad. kicking somebodyin shymbazar area is a hevily crowded place, anything could have happened him.

The reason is we lack a kind of "Rediffmail" emails to disabled people. We don't have a joint association or any body disabled selected as MP.We  are fighting so much for women's/ Sc/St rights quota. But nobody is there to fight for disabled. It is like we are dogs and we are happy with the biscuits thrown by the government/NGOs. We do not have any unity to fight.

I am not blaming the conductor but blaming us only do we have  the strength to raise against atrocities commited every day and we shoould have joined together and burned the bus and beaten up conductor instead of bearing huimuilities to such  a valued differntly abled

Please do not raise the indignities if we are not prepared to fight the atrocities.

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Hi,

I always thought Kolkata is a bit sensitive towards Disabled. This kind of news is pretty bad. kicking somebodyin shymbazar area is a hevily crowded place, anything could have happened him.

The reason is we lack a kind of "Rediffmail" emails to disabled people. We don't have a joint association or any body disabled selected as MP.We  are fighting so much for women's/ Sc/St rights quota. But nobody is there to fight for disabled. It is like we are dogs and we are happy with the biscuits thrown by the government/NGOs. We do not have any unity to fight.

I am not blaming the conductor but blaming us only do we have  the strength to raise against atrocities commited every day and we shoould have joined together and burned the bus and beaten up conductor instead of bearing huimuilities to such  a valued differntly abled

Please do not raise the indignities if we are not prepared to fight the atrocities.

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If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou unlucky one,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

[ghsayan]

Sightless woman yanked off seat



A visually challenged woman was pulled out of a seat on a government bus by the conductor today because the seat was his.

When 24-year-old Chaitali Bairagya pleaded with the conductor that she was “100 per cent handicapped”, he allegedly snapped: “You may be 1000 per cent for all I care. I will not allow you to occupy my seat.”

The conductor of the Bal-urghat-bound North Bengal State Transport Corporation bus then took her hand and pulled her out of the seat amid other passengers’ protests.

The bus did not have a reserved seat for the physically challenged, which is mandatory.

Another passenger, Alimuddin Sheikh, offered his seat to Chaitali.

The shocker comes close on the heels of a string of incidents of rude behaviour by conductors in Calcutta. On Thursday, a physically challenged man was abused for not carrying small change for the fare and pushed off a running bus.

Chaitali, a singer empanelled with the All India Radio, Murshidabad, lost her vision when she was in Class IV. She boarded the bus around 8am from Rejinagar to go to Behrampore town for music lessons.

“A seat near the door was vacant and I sat there. But the conductor rudely asked me to get up. When I showed my disability card (which certifies the level of disability in percentage) and told him I was 100 per cent disabled, he told me that even if I was 1000 per cent, I would have to vacate the seat,” said Chaitali.

At Behrampore, Chaitali and her brother-in-law, who was with her, lodged a complaint with Murshidabad additional district magistrate Jibankrishna Sadhukhan.

At the NBSTC’s Balurghat depot, bus conductor Anjan Ganguly, in his late 40s, denied having mistreated Chaitali.

He said the long-distance bus had two seats for employees. The spare driver was occupying one. “Both the woman and her companion demanded that they be provided seats. I told them the lady could occupy my seat, but the gentleman couldn’t ask for one. She took my seat,” said Ganguly.

However, Alimuddin, a resident of Plassey, corroborated Chaitali’s charge. “I was surprised to see the conductor pull the sightless lady out of the seat. I protested and offered my seat to her,” he said.

In Calcutta, a joint secretary in the transport department said government buses must have reserved seats for the physically challenged. “I shall seek a report from the NBSTC director. The conductor’s conduct will be probed.”

The NBSTC has already ordered a probe.


Please read http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080528/jsp/bengal/story_9331073.jsp

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Sayan Ghosh

Sightless woman yanked off seat



A visually challenged woman was pulled out of a seat on a government bus by the conductor today because the seat was his.

When 24-year-old Chaitali Bairagya pleaded with the conductor that she was “100 per cent handicapped”, he allegedly snapped: “You may be 1000 per cent for all I care. I will not allow you to occupy my seat.”

The conductor of the Bal-urghat-bound North Bengal State Transport Corporation bus then took her hand and pulled her out of the seat amid other passengers’ protests.

The bus did not have a reserved seat for the physically challenged, which is mandatory.

Another passenger, Alimuddin Sheikh, offered his seat to Chaitali.

The shocker comes close on the heels of a string of incidents of rude behaviour by conductors in Calcutta. On Thursday, a physically challenged man was abused for not carrying small change for the fare and pushed off a running bus.

Chaitali, a singer empanelled with the All India Radio, Murshidabad, lost her vision when she was in Class IV. She boarded the bus around 8am from Rejinagar to go to Behrampore town for music lessons.

“A seat near the door was vacant and I sat there. But the conductor rudely asked me to get up. When I showed my disability card (which certifies the level of disability in percentage) and told him I was 100 per cent disabled, he told me that even if I was 1000 per cent, I would have to vacate the seat,” said Chaitali.

At Behrampore, Chaitali and her brother-in-law, who was with her, lodged a complaint with Murshidabad additional district magistrate Jibankrishna Sadhukhan.

At the NBSTC’s Balurghat depot, bus conductor Anjan Ganguly, in his late 40s, denied having mistreated Chaitali.

He said the long-distance bus had two seats for employees. The spare driver was occupying one. “Both the woman and her companion demanded that they be provided seats. I told them the lady could occupy my seat, but the gentleman couldn’t ask for one. She took my seat,” said Ganguly.

However, Alimuddin, a resident of Plassey, corroborated Chaitali’s charge. “I was surprised to see the conductor pull the sightless lady out of the seat. I protested and offered my seat to her,” he said.

In Calcutta, a joint secretary in the transport department said government buses must have reserved seats for the physically challenged. “I shall seek a report from the NBSTC director. The conductor’s conduct will be probed.”

The NBSTC has already ordered a probe.


Please read http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080528/jsp/bengal/story_9331073.jsp

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Sayan Ghosh