Hi all, Sorry for this lengthy mail but I'd try to make as short as I can. I would like to draw your attention towards a very important issue. Friends specially from Delhi may please pitch in and give their inputs.
I think, everyone must have noticed that In Delhi, the private buses, or what we used to call them "Blue line busses" are no more on the roads except few roots in Delhi. Whatever reason may be to get them off the road, I personally think, those were quite accessible to us as the conductor used to call the names of the stops that the bus is going to cover and a visually impaired person standing on the bus stop could easily find the right bus even without any sighted assistance. Now, in these low floor busses, be it Green busses, Redline, Orange busses, AC/nonAC, it is almost impossible for a VI to get the right bus without asking someone standing next to him as the DTC conductors don't call the names of the stops. I had once got to know that there is clearly written on every bus stop that conductor will have to call the stops names for persons with vision problem but noone cares about that. To cut the story short, there is no way out by which a visually impaired person can know the number of the bus or the root of that bus. I had once seen some device being developed at IIT Delhi but don't know much about its current status. It was said and written in 1995 that the government shall frame schemes and allocate funds to make the transport accessible to visually impaired and in 2010, the government made sure here in Delhi at least that whatever accessibility is left, just take it away! I appeal to one and all to come up with the ideas which could insure that the transport which is the one of the most important part of our day to day life becomes accessible to us and necessity of taking help from others is reduced to minimum. Hoping for a healthy discussion on this. Satguru ___,__.___ "Life's battle do not always go, to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the one who wins, is the one who thinks he can." Satguru Rathi. Mobile: +91-9971231627 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Skype: satgururathi Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002489756116 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
