Sudha Chandran – one of the most inspiring figure in the Indian classical dance scene, made a heartfelt appeal to the central government and to the Prime Minister Of India, to bring in some kind of a special provision to help her in her ordeal of traveling with a prosthetic limb.
As you may know, the renowned dancer and actress, had lost her leg at a young age due to a brutal road accident – but continued to make name for herself and for the country, by performing with a prosthetic limb, setting a benchmark for countless others.
But recently the 56 year old stated that the experience of always being asked to take-off her prosthetic limb at the security check-in of airport is humiliating and frustrating.
The star uploaded a video of herself making an appeal to the government and the same was shared across social media.
“…every time that I go on my professional visits, each time, being stopped at the airport and when I request them at the security, to the CISF officers that please do an ETD (Explosive Trace Detector) for my artificial limb, they still want me to remove my artificial limb and show it to them. Is this humanly possible, Modi ji? Is this what our country is talking about? Is this the respect that a woman gives to another woman in our society? It is my humble request to you, Modi Ji, that please give senior citizens a card that says they are a senior citizen.”
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Interestingly, to Sudha’s heartening appeal, CISF representatives even responded through Twitter stating the following:
“We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience caused to Ms. Sudhaa Chandran. As per protocol, prosthetics are to be removed for security checks only under exceptional circumstances.”
They further added:
“We will examine why the lady personnel concerned requested Ms. Sudhaa Chandran to remove the prosthetics. We assure Ms.Sudhaa Chandran that all our personnel will be sensitized again on the protocols so that no inconvenience is caused to traveling passengers.”
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