{"id":82319,"date":"2021-02-12T18:54:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T13:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=82319"},"modified":"2021-02-13T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:47:03","slug":"most-public-buses-are-not-accessible-to-pwds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/most-public-buses-are-not-accessible-to-pwds\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Public buses are not accessible to PwDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to government data, less than 7% of public buses in the country are fully accessible to PwDs as of December 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Target under Accessible India Campaign for Public Buses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the Accessible India Campaign, the deadline for making at least 25% of public buses fully accessible was March 2018. However, the deadline had been pushed forward to June 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How much has been achieved so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inter City Buses:<\/strong> 1 lakh intercity buses are operated by states. Only 0.2% are fully wheelchair accessible, 26% are partially accessible and 74% are not accessible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buses Operating in Urban Areas: <\/strong>Of the 44,000 buses operating in urban areas, only 22% is fully wheelchair accessible, 33% is partially accessible and 44% is not accessible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Accessible India Campaign(AIC):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the nationwide flagship campaign. The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) launched it in 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> It is aimed at making a barrier-free and conducive environment for Divyangjans (Persons with Disabilities &#8211; PwDs) all over the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Components under the campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Build Accessibility Environment: <\/strong>It aims to provide an accessible physical environment for everyone. For that, elimination of obstacles and barriers to indoor and outdoor facilities is required, including in schools, medical facilities, and workplaces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transportation System Accessibility: <\/strong>It focuses on providing PwDs an equal rights. Rights include travel and use of public and private transportation infrastructure with dignity and independence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Information and Communication Eco-System Accessibility: <\/strong>It aims to eliminate all barriers linked to society and infrastructure, in the way of obtaining and utilizing information in daily life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Targets under the Campaign:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>50% of all the government buildings of National Capital and all the State capitals to be fully accessible buildings.<\/li>\n<li>50% of railway stations in the country to be converted into fully accessible railway stations.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, 25% of Government-owned public transport carriers in the country to be converted into fully accessible carriers.<\/li>\n<li>Conducting an accessibility audit of all the domestic airports and converting them into fully accessible airports.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that at least 50% of all public documents issued by the Central Government and the State Governments meet accessibility standards.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that 25% of all public television programmes aired by the government are accessible to PwDs.<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GEV893P4I.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? According to government data, less than 7% of public buses in the country are fully accessible to PwDs as of December 2020. Target under Accessible India Campaign for Public Buses: Under the Accessible India Campaign, the deadline for making at least 25% of public buses fully accessible was March 2018. However,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/most-public-buses-are-not-accessible-to-pwds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Most Public buses are not accessible to PwDs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1399],"class_list":["post-82319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-soc_7","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82319","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=82319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}