WEB DESK
Fourteen Airports Authority of India, AAI Airports are now equipped with Ambulifts to facilitate flyers with reduced mobility under the Accessible India Campaign- Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan- of Government of India. Civil Aviation Ministry informed that Airports Authority of India has procured twenty ambulifts to facilitate passengers with reduced mobility, Divyang passengers on wheelchairs and passengers on stretchers. The facility will be available on airports which are having scheduled flight operations of Code C and other advanced level aircraft, but does not have aerobridge facilities. The Ambulift has been manufactured indigenously under the Make in India policy.
The Ministry said that the facility is presently operating at fourteen airports are Dehradun, Gorakhpur, Patna, Bagdogra, Darbhanga, Imphal, Vijayawada, Port Blair, Jodhpur, Belgaum, Silchar, Jharsuguda, Rajkot, Hubli and remaining six are likely to be operational at Dimapur, Jorhat, Leh, Jamnagar, Bhuj and Kanpur airports by the end of this month.