📋 Tender Overview
Under the Accessible India Campaign, the Central Government conducted access audit of 1671 State/UT Government owned Public Buildings and based on the same provided financial assistance to State/UT Governments for making 1314 buildings accessible.
Further, Central Public Works Department has also retrofitted 211 numbers of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)-owned buildings and 889 buildings of other Departments/ Ministries maintained by CPWD.
Since ‘Works, lands and buildings vested in or in the possession of the State’ is a State subject, in order to facilitate States/UTs, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) has empanelled and published details of 59 access auditors/ auditing firms and the said list has been circulated to all States/UTs and other Ministries/ Departments also. The appropriate authorities directly avail the services of these empanelled auditors/ firms.
