Though the Ministry of Railways has taken a number of measures to make public transport facilities accessible to differently abled persons, the associations for differently abled persons say that there are flaws in implementation and most of the provisions did not reach them effectively.

According to members of the associations, it is ironical that persons with disabilities (PWDs) are not allowed to book tickets online.

Each time she hears someone complain about the traffic and the reluctance of people to use public transport, journalist Nikita D. has just one question: “Why should people, especially women, be forced to take public transport when we all know how unsafe it is?”

Monuments like Aga Khan palace, Shaniwarwada, and Raigad fort will be among the first to have ramps, wheelchairs and information boards in Braille. They will become barrier-free allowing the disabled to access them, according to an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) plan.
 

Around 800 differently-abled students of Delhi University are feeling forlorn and forsaken. Since early March, when a girl student with loco-motor disability, was hit by a speeding bike while crossing the road near the central library in North Campus, a feeling of willful neglect by the university authorities has grown among these students.
 

A division bench of Rajasthan High Court has taken cognizance of a PIL seeking a directive to the state government to provide appropriate facilities and basic amenities to visually impaired persons in state's public libraries, computer training institutes etc.

Now the blind in India, especially Bengal, who never got a chance to know Max Carrados, will at least get the joy of reading the celebrated Satyajit Ray series featuring the tall and intelligent south Kolkata Bengali who cracks every difficult case at the end.

Five volumes of Satyajit Ray's ‘Feluda’ detective series along with R K Narayan's ‘The Malgudi Days’ were launched on Braille for the blind here on Saturday.

The much delayed Copyright Bill, providing for certain important amendments to the Copyright Act, was today approved by the Rajya Sabha. The bill will remove operational difficulties and address newer issues related to the digital world and Internet.
 
The Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010, moved by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, also seeks to bring Indian laws originally enacted in 1957 in conformity with international norms and World Intellectual Property Organisation.