Published on: 1/10/2016IST
This Bus with accessability feature is the First of Its Kind in Tamil Nadu
Auroville, a township in Tamil Nadu, has another and propelled expansion to its vehicle framework as an open available transport.
“By public accessible bus we mean a bus for everybody – the elderly, people who are living with some form of disability, mothers with children, pregnant women, people travelling with heavy load, people with no problems, everyone,” says Susmita, the woman behind this project.
The general population available transport is a part of the Open Auroville venture that was begun in Auroville in 2009 by Susmita and her companions.
The vision behind the project is to make the region more accessible in terms of mobility for all.
To start, Susmita obtained an ordinary transport with the assistance of subsidizing got from one of her companions who is a normal guest of Auroville and was to a great degree worried about the offices identified with portability. She needed to make some gift for a transportation related task, and they finished on the transport.
It is fundamentally a Tata CityRide Marcopolo transport with 12 situates, and is worth Rs. 9 lakh. Once the transport was obtained, Susmita took it to Karur locale of Tamil Nadu, which is home to a manufacturing plant where vehicles can be tweaked. There they got a twofold entryway passage introduced at the back of the transport. At that point they took it to Chennai to get a stage with a lift introduced at that entryway, for wheelchairs and so on to be moved into the transport. The stage was foreign made from Italy. A few seats inside the transport have been evacuated to make place for wheelchair clients.
"It was an awesome involvement with the manufacturing plant where the stage lift was introduced. It has a few distinctively capable laborers who have great abilities in peopling with extraordinary needs," says Susmita. By, this is the first such transport in Tamil Nadu, and will serve as a model for some more to come.
She and her team are working on spreading awareness about inclusive and accessible places in Auroville.
“We are working for Auroville to be as sensitively-designed and inclusive a human environment as possible, free of those unnecessary barriers that make life difficult for some among us. In other words we want a place where, within reason, all can access areas and facilities equally, and take full advantage of opportunities for work, education, leisure, and so on, with the minimum of difficulty, need to ask for help, or embarrassment,” says a report on their website.
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