EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 530, CUTTACK, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018/ CHAITRA 12, 1940

COMMERCE & TRANSPORT (TRANSPORT) DEPARTMENT

NOTIFICATION

The 28th March, 2018

No.2429–TRN-LC-MISC-0076/2017/T.— The Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in

WP(C) No.243 of 2005 with WP(C) No.228 of 2006 in the matter of accessibility of the

disabled persons in public transport as stipulated in the Rights of Persons with Disability

Act, 2016 have passed the judgment on December 15, 2017 which inter alia, contains the

following direction:

"10% of Government owned public transport carriers are to be made fully accessible

by March,2018. Here again Section 41 of the Disabilities Act, 2016 provides for

comprehensive accessibility in all modes of transport including but not remitted to the bus

transport. Therefore, it becomes the duty of the Union, States as well as Union Territories

to ensure that all Government buses are disabled friendly in accordance with the

Harmonized Guidelines. Likewise, the respondents are duty bound to see that private

buses also become disabled friendly”.

In pursuance of the aforesaid direction of the Hon’ble Court the State Government

is pleased to decide that all new buses purchased by Odisha State Road Transport

Corporation as well as by private owners shall comply the new provisions for accessibility

of persons with disability as per the Harmonized Guidelines issued by Ministry of Urban

Transport, Govt. of India by 10th May,2018.

By Order of the Governor

G. SRINIVAS

Principal Secretary to Government

Printed and published by the Director, Printing, Stationery and Publication, Odisha, Cuttack-10

Ex. Gaz. 7-173+100