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Accessible India Campaign

January 12, 2021
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  • The Accessible India Campaign also known as the Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan was launched in 2015 by the Prime Minister.

About Accessible India Campaign

  • Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) is a nation-wide Campaign launched by Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment to provide universal accessibility to persons with disabilities.
  • The campaign aims at providing equal opportunity to persons with disabilities to participate in all the aspects of life and live independently. 
  • The Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan focuses on developing accessible physical environment, transportation system and Information & communication ecosystem.
  • The Government of India with firm commitment towards socio-economic transformation of the persons with disabilities is making efforts to create mass awareness for universal accessibility.
  • India is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).

Components of Accessible India Campaign

  • Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) has the following three important components
    • Built Environment Accessibility
    • Transportation System Accessibility
    • Information and Communication Eco-System Accessibility

Targets originally entailed under the three components:

  • Making 50% of all the government buildings of National Capital and all the State capitals fully accessible by December 2018.
  • Completing accessibility audit of 50% of government buildings and making them fully accessible in 10 most important cities/towns of States by December 2019.
  • Ensuring that 50% of railway stations in the country are converted into fully accessible railway stations by March 2018.
  • Ensuring that 25% of Government owned public transport carriers in the country are converted into fully accessible carriers by March 2018.
  • Conducting accessibility audit of 50% of all government (both Central and State Governments) websites and converting them into fully accessible websites by March 2017.

Objective of Accessible India Campaign

  • Enhancing the proportion of accessible government buildings
  • Enhancing proportion of accessible airports
  • Enhancing the proportion of accessible railway stations
  • Enhancing the proportion of accessible Public Transport
  • Enhancing proportion of accessible and usable public documents and websites that meet internationally recognized accessibility standards
  • Enhancing the pool of sign language interpreters
  • Enhancing the proportion of daily captioning and sign-language interpretation of public television news programmes

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)

  • To develop, promulgate and monitor the implementation of minimum standards and guidelines for the accessibility of facilities and services open or provided to the public;
  • To ensure that private entities that offer facilities and services which are open or provided to the public take into account all aspects of accessibility for persons with disabilities;
  • To provide training for stakeholders on accessibility issues facing persons with disabilities;
  • To provide in buildings and other facilities open to the public signage in Braille and in easy to read and understand forms;
  • To provide forms of live assistance and intermediaries, including guidelines, readers and professional sign language interpreters, to facilitate accessibility to buildings and other facilities open to the public;
  • To promote other appropriate forms of assistance and support to persons with disabilities to ensure their access to information;
  • To promote access for persons with disabilities to new information and communications technologies and systems, including the Internet.
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