New Delhi: The government is all set to launch the "Sugamya Bharat App" - a crowdsourcing mobile application on Tuesday enabling persons with disabilities and others to register complaints if they find a public space, utility or building inaccessibile. People will be able to also upload photographs of such spaces and geo-tag the location of the premises for seeking onground intervention.
The application developed by the department of empowerment of persons with disabilities (DEPwD) under the ministry of social justice and empowerment will enable registered users to not only access information related to the guidelines and provisions on accessible buildings, transport and infratructure under the Accessible India Campaign and other related issues but they will also be able to raise their concerns related to accessibility. The users will be notified at the time of resolution and closure of their complaints. In a bid to make the process inclusive, officials said that the app has been equipped with sign language interpretation demonstrating the process of registration and uploading complaints with photographs. Other features enabling persons with disabilities include font size adjustment, color contrasting option, text to speech and an integrated screen reader in Hindi and English. The app will be available in 10 regional languages, namely, Hindi, English, Marathi, Tamil, Odiya, Kannada, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Malayalam. Times View: As per the 2011 census, about 2.7 crore or 2.2% of India lives with disability. Unofficial estimates suggest the number could be much higher. Yet many buildings, both government as well as private, are inaccessible to them. A crowd-sourced mobile app can help mitigate the situation. It will act as a tool to spread information on the subject to the concerned officials. Hopefully, it will also lead to disabled-friendly renovation of such buildings. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/003a01d70f67%24e74b0320%24b5e10960%24%40gmail.com.
