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Country's First Accessibility Audit Fails To Find A Single Disabled Friendly Building

Country's First Accessibility Audit Fails To Find A Single Disabled Friendly Building

by The Daily Eye Team July 14 2016, 11:55 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 22 secs

India's first accessibility audit of buildings and public places has not found a single completely disabled-friendly building, exposing terrible plight of people with disability in the country.  The first phase of audit, launched across 31 cities as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet initiative Accessible India, threw up shocking results, revealing appalling state of toilets and other facilities for differently-abled in public buildings, hospitals, railway stations and education.

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