{"id":12357,"date":"2019-12-14T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T06:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12357"},"modified":"2019-12-14T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T06:29:35","slug":"targets-missed-accessible-india-campaigns-deadline-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/targets-missed-accessible-india-campaigns-deadline-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"Targets missed, Accessible India campaign\u2019s deadline extended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The deadline for the Accessible India campaign has been extended to March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accessible India Campaign- Sugamaya Bharat Abhiyan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&nbsp;It is a nation-wide Campaign launched by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) of the Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment in 2015.<\/li><li>It aims to provide universal accessibility to persons with disabilities by developing an accessible physical environment, transportation system, and Information &amp; communication ecosystem.<\/li><li>The campaign targeted to complete accessibility audit of 25-50 of the most important government buildings in 50 cities by 2016 and making them completely accessible by 2018.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The types of disabilities increased from 7 to 21&nbsp;<\/li><li>Reservation in higher education, government jobs, poverty alleviation schemes, etc.<\/li><li>Right to free education for every disabled child between the age group of 6 and 18 years&nbsp;<\/li><li>Calls to ensure accessibility in public buildings&nbsp;<\/li><li>Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities and the State Commissioners act as regulatory bodies of the Act.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana for Disabled Persons: <\/strong>It is a scheme for providing Physical Aids and Assisted-living Devices for Senior citizens belonging to the BPL category. It was launched by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in 2017.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The deadline for the Accessible India campaign has been extended to March 2020. Facts: Accessible India Campaign- Sugamaya Bharat Abhiyan &nbsp;It is a nation-wide Campaign launched by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) of the Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment in 2015. It aims to provide universal accessibility to persons&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/targets-missed-accessible-india-campaigns-deadline-extended\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Targets missed, Accessible India campaign\u2019s deadline extended<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[1909],"class_list":["post-12357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-accessible-india-campaign","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704555872},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}