Lok Sabha Question No. 1711 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-06
Subject: Accessible Audit under Accessible India Campaign
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: SHASHI THAROOR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT DEPARTMENT OF EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.171I

TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.03.2018

## Accessible Audit under Accessible India Campaign

## 1711.Dr: Shashi Tharoor:

## Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state: -

- subjected to accessibility audit under the Accessible India Campaign, State-wise;
- (b) the total  number of such buildings   which are now accessible  for persons with disabilities; fully
- (c) the total number of Government buildings of NCT and State Capitals which were identified to be made fully accessible under the Accessible India Campaign;
- (d) the number of buildings made accessible for persons with disabilities out of the total number of 'buildings identified under the said campaign?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF-STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)

- (a) and (b) Under Accessible India   Campaign Access Audit of 1662 buildings has been completed in various States/UTs by the auditors: State-wise list is annexed  No report has been received from States   about buildings which are fully   accessible for   Persons with Disabilities.
- (c) and (d) The total number of Government Buildings of NCT and State Capitals which were identified to be made fully accessible under the Accessible India Campaign is 1364, Out of these; 219 are Central Government   buildings, rest are State Government   buildings. 144 Central Government buildings have been made accessible $0 far:

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State wise list of Government buildings which has been subjected to accessibility audit under Accessible India Campaign:

| State No                      | Cities            | No of Buildings Audited   |
|-------------------------------|-------------------|---------------------------|
| 4 Andaman and Nicobar Islands | Port Blair        | 25                        |
| Andhra Pradesh                | Vishakhapatnam    | 41                        |
| 3 Arunachal Pradesh           | Itanagar          | 24                        |
| 44 Assam                      | Guawahati         | 25                        |
| 5 Bihar                       | Patna             | 28                        |
| 6 Chaitisgarh                 | Raipur            | 58                        |
| Chandigarh                    | Chandigarh        | 44                        |
| 8 Dadra and Nagar Havell      | Sillvassa         | 50                        |
| 9 Delhi                       | Delhi (NCT)       | 23                        |
| 10 Goa                        | Panaii            | 31                        |
|                               | Ahmedabad         | 16                        |
|                               | Gandhinagar       | 27                        |
|                               | Surat             | 6                         |
| Gujarat                       | Vadodra           | 3                         |
|                               | Faridabad         | 47                        |
| 42 Haryana                    | Gurgaon           | 42                        |
| 13 Himachal Pradesh           | Shimla            | 22                        |
| Jammu and Kashmir             | Srinagar          | 25                        |
| 15 Jharkhand                  | Ranchi            | 49                        |
| 16 Karnataka                  | Bengaluru_        | 50                        |
| Thiruvananthapura             | Thiruvananthapura | Thiruvananthapura         |
| 17 Kerala                     | m                 | 51                        |
| 18 Lakshadweep                | Kavaratti         | 58                        |
|                               | Bhopal            | 50                        |
| 19 Madhya Pradesh             | Indore            | 50                        |
|                               | Mumbai            | 53                        |
|                               | Nagpur            | 51                        |
|                               | Nashik            | 26                        |
| 20 Maharashtra                | Pune              | 50                        |
| 21 Manipur                    | Imphal            | 47                        |
| 22 Meghalaya                  | Shillong          | 23                        |
| 23 Mizoram                    | Aizawl            | 33                        |
| 24 Nagaland                   | Kohima            | 29                        |
| 25 Odisha                     | Bhuwaneshwar      | 50                        |
| 26 Puducherry                 | Puducherry        | 30                        |
| 27 Punjab                     | Ludhiana          | 20                        |
| 28 Raijasthan                 | Jaipur            | 88                        |
| 29 Sikkim                     | Gangtok           | 36                        |
|                               | Chennai           | 25                        |
| 30 Tamil Nadu                 | Coimbatore        | 24                        |
| Telangana                     | Hyderabad         | 19                        |
| 32 Tripura                    | Agartala          | 14                        |
| 33 Uttrakhand                 | Dehradun          | 26                        |
|                               | Agra Jhansi       | 39 9                      |

| 34 Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Total   | Kanpur Lucknow Varanasi NOIDA Kolkata   | 20 22 12 34 37   |
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