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Kitty AgarwalParimal Lokhande

EXPANDING ACCESS TO THE PHYSICALLY

CHALLENGED

What is Access?

Physical AccessAccess to ServicesAccess to informationBuilding Management & OperationsAssistive Aids & AppliancesInclusive Policies, Procedures, PracticesAttitudes

For most people, accessibility makes things easier, for people with disabilities, it makes things possible

Access = Ability

Physical Access

Tactile Tiles Parking BaysAccessible Pavements

Platform Lift

Portable Ramps Washrooms Accessible Buses Public Places

• ••Only 11% of the CPWD architects aware of accessibility guidelines.

• ••Guidelines have not been reviewed for 10years

• ••Policies only for government offices, guidelines for private and public places

CPWD

• ••No disability data collected in 1991 and 2001 census

• ••First time in 2011, Census form has option of collecting disability types.

• ••Flawed estimate of 2.1 percent of disabled population

Census

• ••Has a documentary mandate to make all tourist spots and historical monuments accessible

• ••No time frame or roadmap• ••Taj Mahal and Delhi Haat

are success stories

ASI

Status Quo : Within Government

Architectural Education• ••63% architects were taught barrier free principles• ••57% of them felt that accessibility was a very important feature• ••29% felt the importance of building management.

Access Consultants & Auditors• ••Concept does not exist• ••Only one consulting firm operating in this domain

Public Infrastructure – Buses• ••More than 80% of buses in India are operated by state governments.• ••Cost of making a bus wheelchair accessible increases cost by only 5%

Status Quo : India Outlook

Status Quo : IIMA Outlook

PWD Act 1995

Public Infrastructure –

Buses

Timeframe to ASI for Historical monuments

Access Auditors

Defining Access

Recommendations

Grassroot Solutions National Innovation Foundation

Modified Scooter Retrofitted Car

Hand held text scanner

Deficiency in allocation of

Innovation funds

Marketing & Distribution expense – A major pullback

Innovator Mindset and beliefs

Lack of entrepreneurial

talent/venture capital funding

Documenting and Disseminating Innovations

Gaps in incubating grassroots innovations

Our Proposal

Grassroots innovation Information Exchange• ••Similar to a financial exchange• ••Benefits for both rural innovator and

venture capitalists• ••Government – Major Stake holder