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The Issue
- Due to lack of basic disabled friendly facilities it becomes harder for the disabled to get into mainstream society and this keeps them in permanent state of dependency.
- About 2-3% of the Indian population is disabled(according to census 2011). Their are thousands of disabled people cut off from mainstream society because public buildings and other public places are not disabled friendly. Most public places do not provide even simple disability aids like railings to hold onto, or ramps to drive up wheelchairs, let alone braille and sign language services.
- Mobility is seriously affected because of the poor quality of public transport for disabled people.
- Physically disabled people can’t even travel in public transport because of lack of disabled friendly transport facilities.
- A person in a wheelchair can’t travel by bus because the doorways are not wide enough for the wheelchair and the level of the bus foot board is too high.
- At the train station they have to physically be lifted and put into the train. Even a person using crutches find it difficult to use buses and trains.
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Even if they are able to get where they want in a private vehicle, in most cases the buildings are not accessible.
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Most buildings don’t have doorways wide enough to allow a wheelchair in, and all of them have steps.
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Most buildings, even the government buildings, don’t have ramps. The lifts are also often not disabled friendly and they are inside the buildings. So if we can’t climb the steps we can’t get to the lift.
The Issue
- Due to lack of basic disabled friendly facilities it becomes harder for the disabled to get into mainstream society and this keeps them in permanent state of dependency.
- About 2-3% of the Indian population is disabled(according to census 2011). Their are thousands of disabled people cut off from mainstream society because public buildings and other public places are not disabled friendly. Most public places do not provide even simple disability aids like railings to hold onto, or ramps to drive up wheelchairs, let alone braille and sign language services.
- Mobility is seriously affected because of the poor quality of public transport for disabled people.
- Physically disabled people can’t even travel in public transport because of lack of disabled friendly transport facilities.
- A person in a wheelchair can’t travel by bus because the doorways are not wide enough for the wheelchair and the level of the bus foot board is too high.
- At the train station they have to physically be lifted and put into the train. Even a person using crutches find it difficult to use buses and trains.
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Even if they are able to get where they want in a private vehicle, in most cases the buildings are not accessible.
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Most buildings don’t have doorways wide enough to allow a wheelchair in, and all of them have steps.
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Most buildings, even the government buildings, don’t have ramps. The lifts are also often not disabled friendly and they are inside the buildings. So if we can’t climb the steps we can’t get to the lift.
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Petition created on 13 November 2016