You are reading this article from Page No. 4 Bangalore Print Edition SUPPLEMENTMain Edition The State government on Wednesday, told the High Court of Karnataka that it has issued a circular making the installation of a voice-based public address system and disabled-friendly mechanism for boarding and deboarding mandatory in all existing buses.
The circular issued on December 19 was produced before a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Krishna S. Dixit during the hearing on a PIL petition, filed by N. Shreyas, a visually-challenged lawyer. The petitioner had sought a direction for a voice-based public audio-alerts/voice-based announcement system for the benefit of visually-challenged commuters. During an earlier hearing, the government had assured the court that it would introduce a voice-based alert system and when the petition came up for hearing on Wednesday, the government counsel said that the circular has been issued in this regard and it has been ensured that both the public and private stage carriage vehicles will have to be fitted with such systems by June 30, 2024. For old and new For the new vehicles, the installation of these systems will have to be ascertained at the time of registration, and for the old vehicles, at the time of renewal of fitness certificate, the circular states. Meanwhile, the counsel for the State government said that another circular with clarity on the installation of the systems would be issued shortly. Meanwhile, the Bench adjourned further hearing on the petition while asking the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation to submit compliance report on its assurance given to the court about installing these system in the new buses, which would be procured from January 2024 onwards. https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/2023-12-21/th_bangalore/articleGLCC618UO-5256009.ece -- सादर/ Regards अविनाश शाही/ Avinash Shahi सहायक/ Assistant मानव संसाधन प्रबंध विभाग/ Human Resource Management Department भारतीय रिजर्व बैंक/ Reserve Bank of India लखनऊ क्षेत्रीय कार्यालय/Lucknow RO विस्तार/ Extension: 2232 -- 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/CADeSQ2hubiSCRX%3DUyZ870Sy%2BKrhXKddyK8rtr9KaD%3Dh69kwi8w%40mail.gmail.com.
