The Jindal trust chairperson would like help to improve access to public utilities for the physically challenged. Sminu Jindal is seized with a passion to remove obstacles in the way of the disabled, be it on roads, airports, schools, hotels or petrol pumps.
The wheelchair-borne chairperson of SJ Charitable Trust, which provides consultancy services to organisations to make their buildings easily accessible to the disabled, says she would like to have NGOs on board too. "In fact, anyone who is willing to walk with us," she says.
The fee is over Rs 100,000 for private buildings while the government ones get the service for Rs 50,000. The fee, she says, is intended to make governments and companies take the reports seriously.
But Sminu is disappointed with the government. She says her trust carried out accessibility audits for the New Delhi Municipal Corporation facilities as well as sites under the Archaelogical Survey of India.
None of the two have implemented her suggestions.
The trust is now talking to
HPCL and