Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 17

Perturbed over the defunct lift at the District Administrative Complex (DAC), a city-based disability activist has knocked at the doors of the state Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities.

Activist Ashok Sharma, an advocate who also runs an NGO named ‘Helpline’, said the lift had been lying non-functional for over six months, but no action has been taken by the authorities. “According to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016, every government and non-government office should have the facility of lifts and ramps for the disabled. In absence of these facilities at the DAC, disabled and elderly are suffering,” he said.

He said he had raised the issue with officials of the administration several times, but has got nothing than “false assurance” of installing a new lift at a cost of Rs 14 lakh.

Sharma, along with other advocates and disabled persons, said the only washroom for the disabled at the complex was in a bad state and remains locked. Sharma had also earlier approached the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, New Delhi, over the issue.
Source: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/advocate-seeks-disability-panels-help-over-defunct-lift-57372