Wheelchair-Bound Delhi Woman Alleges Discrimination By Uber

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"I'm not ashamed of my disability. I endure it every day," 24-year-old Preeti Singh says.She makes her way around the capital on low-floor DTC buses, uses the Delhi metro and takes cabs almost every other day.

But a recent experience with two separate Uber drivers left her "humiliated." She wrote about the discrimination she faced as a woman in a wheelchair on Monday in a Facebook post that has since gone viral. Uber says they are reviewing the matter "internally."

 The only option she has is to keep her wheelchair in the car. "Both the drivers weren't happy about keeping the wheelchair in their cars. During my trip back home, I really felt humiliated and insulted when the driver kept saying 'My car's gonna get ruined'," she writes on Facebook. 

She describes wiping down the car seat with a towel after the trip ended in an attempt to appease the driver. "I pay for your services, no one's doing any charity then why is it that I still have to feel this way just because I'm a wheelchair user. 

Always praying that the driver doesn't create a fuss about it. Of course I'm going to go with my wheelchair, nobody asks anyone to keep their legs behind when travelling in a cab, why me?" she asks on Facebook. Speaking to reporters. 

Ms Singh adds she chose to remain quiet after the first incident. "I didn't want to ruin my day," she sighs. Unfortunately, she's used to this kind of reaction. "People are just not sensitised," she says. 

Which is why when it happened twice in one day, Ms Singh felt compelled to bring it to Uber's attention. "I have the guts to travel around Delhi. I go out alone all the time," Ms Singh tells NDTV. "But I felt really humiliated this time and didn't want to let it go."

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