The Manipur High Court on Wednesday directed the state government to file a report regarding action taken for providing ramps and toilets to the people with disabilities and elderly persons in public buildings of Churachandpur district. The order was passed by the division bench comprising Chief Justice D. Krishnakumar and Justice Golmei Gaiphulshillu Kabui in a Public Interest Litigation praying …
More than 20,000 regular schools have no ramps for persons with disabilities, 28,843 schools have no handrails, and over 52,000 schools are without toilets for children with special needs in Karnataka, said a Comptroller and Auditor General of India report. The report said that out of 51,464 regular schools in the State, 20,366 have no ramps for easy movement of …
While ramps and wheelchairs were provided, complete accessibility to cast vote was still not achieved for the disabled community in the first phase of the Lok Sabha Elections that was held in Tamil Nadu on Friday. “The polling officer had to help me and my privacy to cast my vote was lost,” he said. Despite access audits of the polling …
