Exercised my franchise for Loksabha Elections 2024 thru Postal Ballot for PersonswithDisabilities very conveniently frm home facilitated by an enthusiastic team of polling officials. Loved the energy around. Thank you Greater Chennai Corporation for the sincere efforts! #NammaChennai IIIDEM

#MyHealthMyRight

Human rights should be the utmost priority!

Thank you World Health Summit. Looking forward to working together on promoting inclusive and accessible health information and care for ALL.

First time in history of Election Commission of India, DEO Chennai Greater Chennai Corporation announced accessible elections icons for all 21 disabilities specified in RPwD Act 2016. Chennai leads accessible elections as always Spokesperson ECI Rajiv kumar deepali masirkar IIIDEM Commissionerate - Welfare of Differently Abled, TN Divyang Empowerment

If accessible polling booths + priority queuing + transport support ASSURED, many 85+ seniors & nearly all benchmark disabled would be able to vote at polling booth.
Age & disability restrictions exclude those who are easily fatigued, have immunity issues, bed-bound by treatment.

Persons with Disabilities can vote from home through postal ballot. For details Call 1950.

Call 1950 to receive postal ballot form 12d on time. Last date for submission of 12d form in Taminadu is 25th March 2024!

85+ senior voters & 40%+ / benchmark disability certificate holders - deadline for form 12D to reach your constituency returning officer is 25-3-2024 - that's 5 days from gazette election notification.

Contact election officials if they don't reach out : bit.ly/24polls-sheet

People with Disabilities are a huge vote bank with around 1 crore voters. Their care givers/ family members make double & triple the numbers. Hope all political parties start looking at disability as a development issue & consider the manifesto from Disability sector seriously

Will an undemocratic indignified treatment to representatives of disability movement be accepted, when they are only trying to support the Accessible Elections agenda out of their way by all possible means?

Who is going to take action agnst police for Ill treating people with disabilities especially S9Pazhavanthangal PoliceStation AC,Inspector,SI in this case Spokesperson ECI Election Commission of India Rajiv kumar TN Elections CEO GREATER CHENNAI POLICE -GCP Divyang Empowerment Commissionerate - Welfare of Differently Abled, TN CMOTamilNadu NHRC India

Removed them, took their phone away and took them to a place unknown to both the leaders. They neither listened to them nor encouraged any phone intervention.This is not one of occasions against persons with disabilities in TN Aiswarya Rao DRA India (Disability Rights Alliance) பேராசிரியர் தீபக்நாதன் , Prof Deepaknathan Vaishnavi Jayakumar

What kind of democracy to manhandle by brutal police force the TN State Disability leaders who had gone to meet the ECI representatives at hotel Trident today to discuss way forward in accessible elections GREATER CHENNAI POLICE -GCP TN Elections CEO Rajiv kumar

#attrocitiesagainstpersonswithdisabilitiesTN
.Smitha Sadasivan and Professor RaghuRaman members of DRA India (Disability Rights Alliance) and members of State Advisory Board RPDA 2016 planned to meet CEO election commission India at Hotel Trident, Chennai. TN police refused them entry and physically

Nothing about us without us! What about the posts that are already vacant? Commissionerate - Welfare of Differently Abled, TN P. Geetha Jeevan

PM eBus Seva Tender closed. Will accessibility for all and universal design be upheld in all public transport hence forth? Can that be an election commitment for citizens with disabilities? Narendra Modi Narendra Modi_in Dr. Virendra Kumar ( मोदी का परिवार )

Hope the US Embassy U.S. Embassy India U.S. Consulate General Chennai and USAID will stand for upholding the compliance of accessibility standards!

Funny how stakeholders are restricted only to industry.
It's the heights of exclusion to have high floor electric buses under PM eBus Sewa scheme for city use, even if wheelchair lift there!
How'd a crutch user, pregnant or older person scale 900mm floor heights South Asia Regional Energy Partnership (SAREP) ?

India needs accessible low floor buses based on accessibility standards, which can be easily used by all population groups.