Thursday, February 18, 2016
Accessible India Campaign or Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan
Accessible India Campaign or Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan
AIC or SBA is a program to serve the
differently-able community of the country. The program comes with an index to
measure the design of disabled-friendly buildings and human resource policies.
The flagship program was launched by the Prime Minister on 3 December 2015, the
International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The initiative also in line
with the Article 9 of UNCRPD (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities) to which India is a signatory from 2007. The scheme also comes
under Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 under section 44, 45, 46 for equal
Opportunities and protection of rights which provides non-discrimination in
Transport to Persons with Disabilities. According to the census 2011, 2.21 per
cent or approx. 21M Indians of the population suffers from disability. The
target is to make at least fifty government buildings disabled friendly under
the campaign in each of the state till end of 2016 and make 25 per cent of the
public transport vehicles under government as disabled friendly till mid 2017.
A website will also be made where the people can put their views on the
accessibility of any building. By July 2016, the international airports in the
country and railway stations which come under A1, A and B categories will be
made fully disabled-friendly.
Special set-top boxes will be made available to make
watching TV more convenient for the visually impaired. In the next 5 years,
almost 200 persons will be trained to speak in sign languages on government TV
channels. Government websites will also be made more friendly by using text to
speech option. The initiative involves retrofitting buildings, framing such
standards for new buildings and transport that they are friendly to the
differently-abled, auditing private companies on 'accessibility index' standard
and making all government websites friendly to the differently-able.
A ''Sugamya Bharat'' mobile app which can provide
information on disabled-friendly public facilities in a city, will be launched
under the scheme
Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan
Jalyukta Shivar Abhiyan
Maharashtra government launched a programme named ‘Jalyukta
Shivar Abhiyan’ to make Maharashtra a drought-free state by 2019. The project
involves deepening and widening of streams, construction of cement and earthen
stop dams, work on nullahs and digging of farm ponds. The programme aims to
make 5000 villages free of water scarcity every year. Under the programme,
micro-irrigation systems would be encouraged for efficient use of water. It
aims at increasing the irrigated area. Existing water conservation schemes will
be now brought under this scheme. With several parts of Maharashtra still reeling
under the drought, the state government launched the scheme to combat
increasing number of suicide by the farmers of the state, among other things.
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