Lok Sabha Question No. 271 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-07-19
Subject: Disabled Friendly Infrastructure
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: Komati Reddy Venkat Reddy, Manne Srinivas Reddy

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.271 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.07.2022

## DISABLED FRIENDLY INFRASTRUCTURE

## 271. SHRI KOMATI REDDY VENKAT REDDY: SHRI MANNE SRINIVAS REDDY:

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

(a)  whether  the  Government  aimed  at  making  aproportion  of  the  Government  buildings, transport  andwebsites  accessible  for  Persons  with  Disabilities  (PwDs)by  issuing  deadlines since 2014 to till date and if so, thedetails thereof, State-wise including Andhra Pradesh and Telangana;

(b) whether some States sought extension of moreyears to complete the targets and if so, the detailsthereof, State-wise; and

(c)  whether  the  Board  which  required  to  meet  onceevery  six  months  under  the  Rights  of Persons withDisabilities Act, 2016, has not met since November, 2020and if so, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (SUSHRI PRATIMA BHOUMIK)

(a):Yes,  sir.  The  Union  Government  aimed  at  making  aproportion  of  the  Government buildings,  transport  andwebsites  accessible  for  Persons  with  Disabilities  (PwDs)by  issuing deadlines.  In this  regard,a target  and  deadline  based  nation-wide flagship campaignnamely Accessible India Campaign (AIC) was launched on 03.12.2015. The details of objectives and status  of  the  Campaign  is  at Annexure-I. The  State/UT-wise  detailed  status  in  respect  of State Govt. owned  buildings and websites are at Annexure  -II and Annexure-III respectively .

(b): Yes, sir. State Governments of Tamil Naidu and Andhra Pradesh have sought extension upto  June,  2023  and  December,  2023  respectively  to  achieve  the  target  of  making  public buildings accessible.

(c):The Meeting of the Central Advisory Board (CAB) has since been held on 24.06.2022.

Annexure referred to in part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 271 raised by Shri Komati  Reddy  Venkat  Reddy  and  Shri  Manne  Srinivas  Reddy  for  answer  on  19.07.2022 regarding ' Disabled Friendly Infrastructure'

## Details of targets and the progress thereof under the Accessible India Campaign

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Status

|    | Target                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
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|  1 | Target of enhancing the proportion of Accessible Government Buildings: Target 1.1 : Completing accessibility audit of at least 25-50 most important government buildings in 50 cities and making them fully accessible; Target 1.2 : Making 50% of all the government buildings of the National Capital and all the State Capitals fully accessible; Target 1.3 : Completing accessibility audit of 50% of government buildings and making them fully accessible in 10 most important cities/towns of states not covered in targets 1.1 and 1.2; | For Target (1.1) - State Government buildings In the State Governments / UTs, auditors completed Access Audit of 1671 buildings in 48 cities. 1671 access audit reports have been submitted to the State's/UTs Nodal Officers. Further, financial proposals for retrofitting of 1484 buildings have been received so far. Sanction has been issued by the Department in respect 1314 buildings and 20 States/UTs have reported to have completed retrofitting work in 595 buildings. For Target 1.2 and 1.3 7 States/UTs have informed that 2839 State Government buildings have been selected to be made accessible under Targets/Phases (1.2) and (1.3) from their own funds. For Central Government building under the targets of built up environment:  In the Central Government, CPWD reported completion of retrofitting in 1030 out of selected 1108 Central Government buildings targeted under Accessible India Campaign in FY 2021-22. |
|  2 | Target of enhancing the proportion of Accessible Airports Target 2.1 and 2.2 - Airports: All international airports and domestic airports to be made fully accessible;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | All 35 international airports & 55 out of 69 domestic airports provided with accessibility features (ramps, accessible toilets, helpdesks and lifts with Braille and auditory information systems), Further, all international/customs airport are reported to have been provided with aerobridges.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
|  3 | Target of enhancing the proportion of Accessible Railway Stations Target 3.1 and 3.2 - Railways: A1, A & B categories of railway stations to be made fully accessible; 50% of all railway stations to be made fully accessible;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | All 709 A1, A & B category railway stations have been made fully accessible, 4068 railway stations have been made partially accessible.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |

4

Target of

enhancing the

MoRTH  reported  that  as on

04.07.2022, out of

|    | proportion of Accessible Public Transport Target 4.1 - Buses: 10% of Government owned public transport carriers are to be made fully accessible;                                                                                                                                                                      | 1,45,747 buses, 42,348 (29.05%) buses are partially accessible and 8,695 (5.96%) buses are fully accessible and out of 3533 bus station, 3120 are made accessible in respectof 24 States/UTs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
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|  5 | Target of Enhancing proportion of accessible and usable public documents and websites Target 5.1 and 5.2 - Websites: At least 50% of Central and State Government websites are to meet accessibility standards; 50% of all public documents issued by the Central and State Governments meet accessibility standards; | A total of 611 State Governments' websites have been made accessible including 476websites made live so far. 95 websites of Central Government Ministries/Departments are made accessible by Meity under the Content Management Framework so far.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
|  6 | Target 6.1 - Sign Language Interpreters Training and Developing 200 additional sign language interpreters:                                                                                                                                                                                                            | The Government has established Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) as a Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, in September 2015. The main objective of the Centre is to develop manpower for using, teaching and conducting research in Indian Sign Language. ISLRTC has informed that more than 1000 persons have been trained in Indian sign language through Diploma and Short Term Courses of ISLRTC. Total 116 students have completed Diploma in Indian Sign Language Interpretation (DISLI) course in three academic sessions during 2016-17 to 2019- 21. ISLRTC is currently running DISLI course for the academic year 2020-22 having total 77 students.                                                                                                |
|  7 | Target 7.1 and 7.2 - T.V Viewing: (a) Public television news - National standards on captioning and sign language interpretation are to be created and adopted; (b) At least 25% of public television programmes on government channels are to comply with the set standards                                          | Accessibility standards for accessible TV viewing by persons with hearing impairment have already been issued by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MoIB) for providing for sub-titling, sign language interpretation along with accessibility for televisions sets, remote controls, equipment and internet content. Further, MoIB has to formulate similar guidelines for other disabilities including visual impairment. Accessible content on TV is also being enhanced in a phased manner and so far 19 private news channels are telecasting partially accessible news bulletin, 2447 news bulletins have been telecast with subtitling/sign-language interpretation and more than 3686 scheduled programs/movies using subtitling have been telecast by general entertainment channels. |

Annexure referred to in part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 271 raised by Shri Komati  Reddy  Venkat  Reddy  and  Shri  Manne  Srinivas  Reddy  for  answer  on  19.07.2022 regarding ' Disabled Friendly Infrastructure'

## State-wise status of Government buildings completed/pending

| S. No.   | State/UT                   |   No. of Buildings for which Proposals and Cost Estimate received |   No. of Buildings funded |   No. of Buildings which are reported to be completed by State Government |
|----------|----------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.       | Andaman and Nicobar Island |                                                                25 |                        25 |                                                                        23 |
| 2.       | Andhra Pradesh             |                                                                40 |                        38 |                                                                         0 |
| 3.       | Arunachal Pradesh          |                                                                24 |                        23 |                                                                         0 |
| 4.       | Assam                      |                                                                24 |                        24 |                                                                         0 |
| 5.       | Bihar                      |                                                                26 |                        21 |                                                                        21 |
| 6.       | Chhattisgarh               |                                                                52 |                        47 |                                                                        20 |
| 7.       | Chandigarh                 |                                                                43 |                        43 |                                                                        39 |
| 8.       | Delhi                      |                                                                18 |                        18 |                                                                         3 |
| 9.       | Goa                        |                                                                31 |                        30 |                                                                         0 |
| 10.      | Gujarat                    |                                                                48 |                        46 |                                                                        24 |
| 11.      | Haryana                    |                                                                89 |                        64 |                                                                         3 |
| 12.      | Himachal Pradesh           |                                                                21 |                        11 |                                                                         0 |
| 13.      | Jammu and Kashmir          |                                                                37 |                        32 |                                                                         7 |
| 14.      | Jharkhand                  |                                                                34 |                        14 |                                                                         0 |
| 15.      | Karnataka                  |                                                                49 |                        47 |                                                                         0 |
| 16.      | Kerala                     |                                                                28 |                        28 |                                                                         0 |
| 17.      | Lakshadweep                |                                                                24 |                         0 |                                                                         0 |
| 18.      | Madhya Pradesh             |                                                               100 |                        89 |                                                                         0 |
| 19.      | Maharashtra                |                                                               159 |                       142 |                                                                       135 |
| 20.      | Manipur                    |                                                                28 |                        28 |                                                                         0 |
| 21.      | Meghalaya                  |                                                                24 |                        24 |                                                                        17 |
| 22.      | Mizoram                    |                                                                33 |                        33 |                                                                        23 |
| 23.      | Nagaland                   |                                                                29 |                        29 |                                                                        10 |
| 24.      | Odisha                     |                                                                50 |                        40 |                                                                        26 |
| 25.      | Puducherry                 |                                                                29 |                        29 |                                                                         0 |
| 26.      | Punjab                     |                                                                20 |                        20 |                                                                         2 |
| 27.      | Rajasthan                  |                                                                88 |                        88 |                                                                        78 |
| 28.      | Sikkim                     |                                                                35 |                        35 |                                                                        30 |
| 29.      | Tamil Nadu                 |                                                                41 |                        30 |                                                                        15 |
| 30.      | Telangana                  |                                                                18 |                        16 |                                                                         7 |
| 31.      | Tripura                    |                                                                14 |                        14 |                                                                         0 |
| 32.      | Uttarakhand                |                                                                26 |                        16 |                                                                         4 |
| 33.      | Uttar Pradesh              |                                                               141 |                       137 |                                                                        87 |
| 34.      | West Bengal                |                                                                36 |                        33 |                                                                        21 |
| 35.      | Dadra and Nagar Haveli     |                                                                 0 |                         0 |                                                                         0 |
| Total    |                            |                                                              1484 |                      1314 |                                                                       595 |

Annexure referred to in part (a) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 271 raised by Shri Komati  Reddy  Venkat  Reddy  and  Shri  Manne  Srinivas  Reddy  for  answer  on  19.07.2022 regarding ' Disabled Friendly Infrastructure'

## State-wise status of Websites made accessible/live

| S. No.   | States/UTs             |   Total Websites identified |   Website developed and submitted for acceptance (UAT) |   UAT received (A) |   Under GIGW Audit (B) |   Websites made accessible (A)-(B) |   Websites made live |
|----------|------------------------|-----------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|--------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------|----------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh         |                          15 |                                                     15 |                 15 |                      0 |                                 15 |                    6 |
| 2.       | Chhattisgarh           |                          91 |                                                     89 |                 86 |                      0 |                                 86 |                   59 |
| 3.       | Chandigarh             |                          28 |                                                     28 |                 28 |                      0 |                                 28 |                   27 |
| 4.       | Dadra and Nagar Haveli |                          11 |                                                     11 |                 11 |                      0 |                                 11 |                    6 |
| 5.       | Daman and Diu          |                          11 |                                                     11 |                  9 |                      0 |                                  9 |                    4 |
| 6.       | Delhi                  |                          74 |                                                     67 |                 61 |                      0 |                                 61 |                   31 |
| 7.       | Goa                    |                          18 |                                                     18 |                 18 |                     10 |                                  8 |                   16 |
| 8.       | Gujarat                |                          23 |                                                     22 |                 19 |                      1 |                                 18 |                   17 |
| 9.       | Haryana                |                          64 |                                                     64 |                 64 |                      1 |                                 63 |                   56 |
| 10.      | Himachal Pradesh       |                          25 |                                                     24 |                 23 |                      0 |                                 23 |                   19 |
| 11.      | Jammu and Kashmir      |                          22 |                                                     21 |                 20 |                      0 |                                 20 |                   12 |
| 12.      | Jharkhand              |                          56 |                                                     51 |                 42 |                      1 |                                 41 |                   37 |
| 13.      | Karnataka              |                          12 |                                                      4 |                  4 |                      0 |                                  4 |                    0 |
| 14.      | Madhya Pradesh         |                          41 |                                                     41 |                 40 |                      0 |                                 40 |                   37 |
| 15.      | Maharashtra            |                          23 |                                                     23 |                 23 |                      0 |                                 23 |                   21 |
| 16.      | Meghalaya              |                          34 |                                                     34 |                 34 |                      0 |                                 34 |                   33 |
| 17.      | Odisha                 |                          11 |                                                      2 |                  1 |                      0 |                                  1 |                    0 |
| 18.      | Puducherry             |                          63 |                                                     62 |                 59 |                      4 |                                 55 |                   42 |
| 19.      | Punjab                 |                          47 |                                                     46 |                 45 |                      0 |                                 45 |                   36 |
| 20.      | Rajasthan              |                           3 |                                                      3 |                  2 |                      0 |                                  2 |                    0 |
| 21.      | Tamil Nadu             |                          13 |                                                      7 |                  5 |                      0 |                                  5 |                    2 |
| 22.      | Tripura                |                          20 |                                                     20 |                 20 |                     19 |                                  1 |                    0 |
| 23.      | Uttar Pradesh          |                          19 |                                                     18 |                 18 |                      0 |                                 18 |                   15 |
|          | Total                  |                         724 |                                                    681 |                647 |                     36 |                                611 |                  476 |

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