Dear Mr. Himanshu, Here, I try to address your queries as follows.
1. So for as the persons with disability act is concerned, it deals only with matter of non-discrimination in public transportation. The section 45 of the act, which deals this matter is as follows. "The appropriate governments and the Local authorities shall, with in the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for - a. Installation of auditory signals at red lights in the public roads for the benefit of persons with visually handicapped, b. Causing curb cuts and slopes to be made in pavements for the easy access of wheel chair users. c. Engraving on the surface of the Zebra Crossing for the blind or for persons with low vision, d. Engraving on the edges of railway flat forms for the blind or persons with low vision. e. Devising appropriate symbols of disability f. Warning signals at appropriate places". 2. In this way the active silent in regard with the reservation of seats and concession in fare of the public transportation, but most of the state governments under their social security schemes, offer such benefits to the different classes of their disadvantageous residents and persons with disability are also considered among those classes. But these benefits and facilities vairry from one to other state. There are no such standard rules so for which equally apply to all the states. 3. So for my state Karnataka is concerned, free travel facility has been granted to the totally blind persons through out the state in ordinary busses of K.S.R.T.C & B.M.T.C. Two seats near to the front door have also been reserved for persons with disability. 4. If you could tell me to which state do you belong? I may try my best to provide you the correct informations about the status of the facilities and benefits available to the V.I.P in that particular state. With due regards, Gautam Prakash Agarwal President, . -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Himanshu Sahu Sent: 21 June 2010 14:50 To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] (no subject) Dear AI members, especially legal experts, Posting this message again, if somebody can forward any valuable suggestion regarding the issue will be highly appriciated. On 6/19/10, Himanshu Sahu <sahu.himanshu2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear AI members, especially legal experts, > I am in urgent need of the rules framed for disabled people in regard > of public transportation issued from state governments especially for > metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai etc. > And if somebody can provide the essence of PWD act's section dealing > with the measures to be taken by state governments facilitating > traveling for disabled people. > > Actually, the exact concern is that the private buses being run along > with the state government's buses are they expected to be complying > with the provisions made for disabled passengers such as reserved > seat, no fair etc.? > > Responses will be highly appreciable. > > > -- > Thanks and regards > Himanshu Sahu > Reach: 09051055000 > > Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with > disability bill at: > http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm > > To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > -- Thanks and regards Himanshu Sahu Reach: 09051055000 Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Voice your thoughts in the blog to discuss the Rights of persons with disability bill at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/blog.htm To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
