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Samarthyam’s Access Audit Team comprises accessibility auditors with disabilities who have graduated from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), 2001. The team is the first training recipient on a non-handicapping environment and is pioneer in conducting access audits, having three decades (30 years) of experience.

We are Member, NITI Aayog, GoI on Disability & Accessibility and Empanelled Accessibility Auditors, Accessible India Campaign of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, GoI. We specialize in implementing strategies for the retrofitting of the built environment and provide hand holding support to implementing agencies with cost effective standards. We have access audited more than 17000 sites/ buildings since 1993. We are cross-disability focused and in access audits, -disability, -age and -gender friendly elements are emphasized. This means our focus is 100 per cent on universal accessibility and user-friendly environment. We deliver in a number of ways: site visit, referral to one of our specialist services or a training course.

Accessibility Services

• Access audits of work spaces, sites, buildings, roads, airports, bus terminals, railway stations, heritage monuments, tourism sites, etc. and plan vetting (appraisals) aligned with Accessible India Campaign and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016. We provide pre and post access audit certification of “Accessibility Compliance”

• Strategic Planning & Design appraisals for planning & design of universal accessibility standards in blue print stage

• Research

• Policy Advocacy

• Streetscape and Sports Complex Accessibility

• Assistive Technology & Design

• Design Appraisals Universal Design provisions: identifying barriers in built and transport environment, facilities and services that may affect people with disabilities and elderly and provide cost effective solutions.

• Post audit planning for prioritization and implementation & mentoring of the project to achieve the desired objective of ‘Access for All’.

• Training : Capacity Building, Accessibility Audit Training, Diversity & Inclusion Training, etc. is imparted by our in-house Master Trainers accredited by Government of India.

Areas of Operation

• Sports complex and stadiums

• Housing complexes

• Healthcare establishments

• Tourism sites

• Heritage monuments and sites

• Hotels and Resorts

• Industrial and factory sites

• Everything which is open for public use!!

• Local, national and international governments

• Educational institutions – schools, colleges, Universities, IITs, IIMs, ITI, etc.

• Retail shopping centers, Malls

• Airports

• Railway stations

• Bus terminus

• Pedestrian facilities, roads and streets

We operate across India and globally to provide services in variety of sites, public/private property managers including:

• UN Agencies: UNESCO, UNICEF, UNESCAP, UNDESA, UNECOSOC

• Government of India: Central Public Works Department, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Indian Roads, Congress, Delhi Police, etc.

• Urban local bodies and corporations: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Dilli Haat (DTTDC), Delhi Transport Corporation, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation; Public Works Department in Delhi, Chennai, Trivandrum, Ranchi, Pune, Bhubaneswar, Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli among others; Indian Railways; Chennai Metro Rail Corporation; BRT Delhi and 23 cities under Accessible India Campaign.

• Educational Agencies: IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Delhi, IIT Jammu, IIM Jammu, University of Delhi, IGNOU, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad; SLIET- University of Punjab, University of Jaipur (Rajasthan), University of Garhwal, University of Kurukshetra, vetted plans of University of Uttrakhand, etc.

• Developers and Corporates: ITC, JLL, DLF, Ambani group, Mumbai International Airport (MIAL), Bangalore International Airport Limited, Corporate Offices of Hewitt (AON), GENPACT, Coca Cola, Indian Oil Limited (Corporate Office), TATA Power Delhi Distribution Limited, Hudson Road, etc.

Our Clients / Partners in Change