Govt bldgs, public spaces inaccessible for PwDs in Nagaland, says minister

Kohima: The state commissioner for persons with disabilities, Diethono Nakhro, lamented that many government offices and public spaces in Nagaland have not built the necessary infrastructure to make them accessible for persons with disabilities.
Nakhro said the public works department of the state in a notification on February 5, 2019 had stated that all public buildings and spaces in the state should be made accessible to the PwDs.
“Many government buildings are still inaccessible to PwDs. We cannot continue to deprive the disabled community of our state,” said Nakhro, while addressing a workshop on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the engineers and officials of the PWD (housing) here on Friday.
“It is a sad reflection of our society that all our new public buildings and spaces are having to go through retrofitting processes to make them accessible when they should have been designed and planned inclusively for all citizens right from the start. In fact, none of these buildings should have been given an NOC or completion certificate,” she said. PTI