Jammu: Leh airport is now equipped with Ambulifts, to facilitate flyers with reduced mobility and Divyang on boarding aircraft.
Officials told IndusDispatch, that the Airport Authority of India (AAI) installed made in India ambulifts that can cater to six wheelchairs and two stretchers.
“Now, Leh airport is among 20 airports across country with ambuifts,” they said.
“The initiative taken up by AAI under Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) of Government of India will provide convenient air travel to flyers with reduced mobility and also help ‘Divyangjan’ at airports where aerobridge facility is not available. Procured at a cost of Rs. 63 lakhs per unit, AAI is providing Ambulift facility at a nominal token charge to the operating airlines at its airports,” officials said.
They maintained that the Government of India had been working to take forward the vision of the Sugamya Bharat Abhiyaan in order to ensure fully accessible public infrastructure, including airports, railways stations and public transport systems.
“This new addition of Ambulift at various AAI airports will strengthen transportation system accessibility, which is an important vertical of the Accessible India Campaign,” they added.
