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IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF THE

3 ACCESSIBLE INDIA CAMPAIGN

ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBILITY

OBJECTIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
l Audit of 16,662 identified
Conducting audit of
25-30 most important buildings has been completed
Government buildings and reports have been submitted
in 50 cities and l Rs 443.63 Crore have been
converting them sanctioned for 1,152 buildings
into fully accessible l Auditors given Rs 28.31 Lakh
buildings for Sugamya Audit

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM ACCESSIBILITY

l Enhancing proportion of accessible airports

OBJECTIVE
Conducting accessibility audit of all the international and
domestic airports and converting them into fully accessible
international airports

ACHIEVEMENTS
l All 35 international airports and 69 domestic persons with reduced mobility
airports in the country to be accessible to all l Based on the guidelines, model airports were
l The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has being designed so that they can be replicated
released a handbook for barrier-free space for across the country
INCREASING THE PROPORTION OF ACCESSIBLE RAILWAY STATIONS
A1, A and B categories of railway stations in the country are converted into
fully accessible railway stations. Around 50 per cent railway stations have
been converted into fully accessible railway stations

ACHIEVEMENTS
l Short-term facilities have been made available at ENHANCING THE PROPORTION OF
709 stations while long-term facilities have been ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC TRANSPORT
planned at 603 railway stations OBJECTIVE: Ensuring that 50 per cent of
Government- owned public transport carriers
l Railways have over 3,400 disabled-friendly Integral are converted into fully accessible carriers
Coach Factory-designed coaches in its fleet to ACHIEVEMENT: Currently, out of 1,13,397
make trains disabled friendly. Around 498 new buses, at least 7,131 buses can carry
coaches will be ready in the next three years wheelchairs. A total of 24,754 buses are
l 521 lifts installed at 250 stations. 705 escalators partially accessible
have been installed at 226 stations

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