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NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2001/MAGHA 28,1922

MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 14th February, 2001

F. No. 16-38/2000-NI.-1.—In pursuance of the provision contain in Sections 44, 45 and 46 of the Persons with

Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, it is hereby notified thai all

establishments in the transport sector shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, take special

measures to adapt rail compartments, buses, vessels and aircrafts in such a way as to permit easy access to such

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persons; adapt toilets in rail compartments, vessels and aircrafls and waiting rooms in such a way as to permit the

wheel chair users to use them conveniently. It is further notified that the appropriate Governments and the local

authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for installation of auditory

signals at red lights in the public roads for the benefit of persons with visual handicap; causing curb cuts and slopes

lo be made in pavements for the easy access of wheel chair users; engraving on the surface of the zebra crossing for

I lie blind or tor persons with low vision; engraving on the edges of railway platforms for the blind or for persons with

low vision; devising appropriate symbols of disability; warning signals at appropriate places; ramps in public buildings,

including schools, adaption of toilets for wheel chair users; Braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or lifts;

rnmps in hospitals, primary health centres and other medical care and rehabilitation institutions.

GAURJ CHATTERJl, Jt. Secy.

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