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1.0 DEFINITIONS:
1.1 Non-ambulatory Disabilities:-
Impairments that, regardless of cause or manifestation, for all practical purposes, confine individuals to wheelchairs.
1.2 Semi-ambulatory Disabilities:-
Impairments that cause individuals to walk with difficulty or insecurity. Individuals using braces or crutches, amputees, aribritics, spastics, and those with pulmonary and cardiac ills may be semi-ambulatory.
1.3 Hearing Disabilities:-
Deafness or hearing handicaps that might make an individual insecure in public areas because he is unable to communicate or hear warning signals.
1.4 Sight Disabilities:-
Total blindness or impairments affecting sight to the extent that the individual, functioning in public areas, is insecure or exposed to danger.
1.5 Wheel Chair:-
Chair used by Disabled people for mobility. The standard size at wheel chair shall be taken as 1050 mm. X 750 mm.
2.0 SCOPE:
These bye laws are applicable to all existing and proposed buildings and facilities used by the public.
3.0 SITE DEVELOPMENT:
Level of the roads, access paths and parking areas shall be described in the plan along with specification of the materials.
3.1 Access path/walk way:-
Access path from plot entry and surface parking to building entrance shall be of minimum of 1800 mm. wide having even surface without any slope. Slope if any shall not have gradient greater than 5%. Finishes shall have a no slip surface with a texture traversable by a wheel chair. Curbs wherever provided shall blend to a common level.
3.2 Parking:- For parking of vehicles of handicapped people, the following provisions shall be made:-
a) Surface parking for two car spaces shall be provided near entrance for the physically handicapped persons with maximum travel distance of 30 mt. from building entrance.
b) The width of parking bay shall be minimum 3.60 mt.
c) The information stating that the space is reserved for wheel chair users shall be conspicuously displayed.
4.0 BUILDING REQUIREMENTS:
The specified facilities for the buildings for physically handicapped persons shall be as follows:-
1. Approach to plinth level.
2. Corridor connecting the entrance/exit for the handicapped.
3. Stairways.
4. Lift.
5. Toilet.
6. Drinking Water.
4.1 Approach to Plinth Level:-
Every building should have atleast one entrance accessible to the handicapped and shall be indicated by proper signage. This entrance shall be approached through a ramp together with the stepped entry.
4.2 Ramped Approach:-
Ramp shall be finished with no slip material to enter the building. Minimum width of ramp shall be 1800 mm. With maximum gradient 1.12. Length of ramp shall not exceed 9.0 mt. Having 800 mm. High hand rail on both sides extending 300 mm. Beyond top and bottom of the ramp. Minimum gap from the adjacent wall to the hand rail shall be 50 mm.
4.3 Stepped Approach:-
For stepped approach size of tread shall not be less than 300 mm. And maximum riser shall be 150 mm. Provision of 800 mm. High hand rail on both sides of the stepped approach similar to the ramped approach.
4.4 Exit/Entrance Door:-
Minimum clear opining of the entrance door shall be 900 mm. And it shall not be provided with a step that obstructed the passage of wheel chair user. Threshold shall not be raised more than 12 mm.
4.5 Entrance Landing:-
Entrance landing shall be provided adjacent to ramp with the minimum dimension 1800 x 2000 mm. Finishes shall have a non-slip surface with a texture traversable by a wheel chair. Curbs wherever provided should blend to a common level.
4.2 Corridor Connecting the Entrance/Exist for the Handicapped:-
The corridor connecting the outdoors to a place where information concerning the overall use of the specified building can be provided to visually impaired persons either by a person or by signs, shall be provided as follows:-
(a) The minimum width shall be 1500 mm.
(b) In case there is a difference of level slope ways shall be provided with a slope of 1:12.
(c) Hand rails shall be provided for ramps/slope ways.
4.3 Stair Ways:-
One of the stair-ways near the entrance/exist for the handicapped shall have the following provisions:-
(a) The minimum width shall be 1350 mm.
(b) Height of the riser shall not be more than 150 mm. And width of the tread 300 mm. The steps shall not have abrupt (square) nosing.
(c) Maximum number of risers on a flight shall be limited to 12.
(d) Hand rails shall be provided on both sides and shall extend 300 mm. On both sides and shall extend 300 mm. On the top and bottom of each flight of steps.
4.4 Lifts:- Wherever lift is required as per bye-laws, provision of at least one lift shall be made for the wheel chair user with the following cage dimensions:
Clear internal depth : 1100 mm.
Clear internal width : 2000 mm.
Entrance door width : 900 mm.
(a) A hand rail not less than 600 mm. Long at 1000 mm. Above floor level shall be fixed adjacent to the control panel. Also, switch control shall be at an operating height equal to that of hand rails.
(b) The lift lobby shall be of an inside measurement of 1800 x 1800 mm. or more.
(c) The time of an automatically closing door should be minimum 5 second and the closing speed should not exceed 0.25 M/sec.
(d) The interior of the case shall be provided with a device that audibly indicates the floor the cage has reached and indicates that the door of the cage for entrance/exist is either open or closed.
4.5 Toilets:-
One special W.C. in a set of toilet shall be provided for the use of handicapped with essential provision of wash basin near the entrance for the handicapped:-
(a) The minimum size shall be 1500 x 1750 mm.
(b) Minimum clear opening of the door shall be 900 mm. and the door shall swing out.
(c) Suitable arrangement of vertical/horizontal handrails with 50 mm. Clearance from wall shall be made in the toilet.
(d) The W.C. seat shall be 500 mm. from the floor.
4.6 Drinking Water:-
Suitable provision of drinking water shall be made for the handicapped near the special toilet provided for them.
4.7 Designing for Children:-
In the buildings meant for the predominant use of the children, it will be necessary to suitably alter the height of the handrail and others fittings and fixtures etc.
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