Jaipur: Commuting in busy and crowded market places of Jaipur will no
longer be a nightmare for the physically-challenged people. Three
busiest roads of the city will soon become disabled friendly. The
proposal in this regard was floated by traffic police in the meeting
of traffic control board.
Traffic police has recommended
making Johari Bazaar, Bapu Bazaar and MI Road more disabled-friendly
by constructing special ramps, pavements and special crossings for
disabled people. Special parking slots for the disabled have also been
proposed at different locations at these three routes.
Deputy Commissioner of Police
(traffic) Rohit Mahajan said, "We have recommended that busy and
crowded market areas like Johari Bazar, Bapu Bazaar and MI Road should
become disabled friendly. We have recommended that special ramps and
pavements should be constructed at these places. Besides this, we have
also proposed for allocation of exclusive parking slots and special
crossings for disabled persons.”
The initiative will not only
help in solving traffic problems but it will be a great help to the
physically-challenged persons, especially those on wheelchairs.
Earlier, CUTS staff along with a trained group of access auditors,
which included disability activists, persons with disability, speech
and hearing impaired people, parents of autistic child, architects,
engineers and legal experts conducted an access audit at the DCP
traffic office.
The group later proposed DCP
traffic for inducting special commuting facilities for the disabled in
busy market places of the city. The detail report of the audit will
soon be submitted to DCP.
CUTS Director George Cheriyan
informed that similar audit will be conducted at ten more government
offices where people visit in large numbers.