{"id":6822,"date":"2015-12-11T06:24:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2015-12-11T06:24:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T06:24:23","slug":"accessible-india-campaign-sugamya-bharat-abhiyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/accessible-india-campaign-sugamya-bharat-abhiyan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAccessible India Campaign\u201d (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment has launched Accessible India Campaign to achieve universal accessibility for persons with disabilities, it was launched on-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) 2 December<br \/>\n(b) 3 September<br \/>\n(c) 3 December<br \/>\n(d) 30 November<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (c)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 3 December 2015 Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment has launched \u201cAccessible India Campaign\u201d (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) to achieve universal accessibility for persons with disabilities.<\/li>\n<li>It was launched by Union Minister of Finance, Shri Arun Jaitley along with Minister of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment, Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot.<\/li>\n<li>Under the campaign, atleast 50% of all the government buildings of National Capital and all the State capitals will be made fully accessible for persons with disabilities by July 2018.<\/li>\n<li>All the international airports in the country and railway stations of A1, A &amp; B categories will be made fully accessible by July 2016.<\/li>\n<li>As per campaign drafted by Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment, atleast 10% of government owned public transport carriers in the country will be converted into fully accessible carriers for these persons by March 2018.<\/li>\n<li>It will also be ensured that atleast 50% of all public documents issued by the Central Government and the State Governments meet accessibility standards for persons with disabilities by March 2018.<\/li>\n<li>During this occassion the National Awards were conferred on 52 individuals\/institutions under fourteen broad categories.<\/li>\n<li>The Government has also decided to set up a special University for persons with disabilities with the cost of Rs. 1700 crore. It will start functioning with next academic year.<\/li>\n<li>A web portal and mobile application for creating a crowd sourcing platform to get information about inaccessible was also launched on the occasion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=132442\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=132442<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment has launched Accessible India Campaign to achieve universal accessibility for persons with disabilities, it was launched on- (a) 2 December (b) 3 September (c) 3 December (d) 30 November Ans (c) Related facts: On 3 December 2015 Ministry of Social Justice &amp; Empowerment has launched \u201cAccessible India Campaign\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}