The path to an inclusive beach
The Hindu
The permanent pathway project at Marina has the potential to be a benchmark for inclusivity. DRA volunteers offer suggestions to be incorporated in the exercise
When the temporary pathway created on the sands of the Marina Beach to enable people with disabilities to enjoy the sea is dismantled, volunteer groups and civic authorities will have a lot to brainstorm about.
Each of their observations and suggestions would be important and might go a long way towards determining the kind of permanent pathway that would be installed at the Marina. Recently, Chief Minister M K Stalin announced that the beach would have a permanent pathway to benefit the differently-abled.
Volunteers, who are helping persons on the wheelchair experience the waves, point out that the trial study for the permanent pathway is under way.