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56. The petitioner before us seeks something even more basic which is access to public transport to the disabled.

57. In para 22 of Rajive Raturi, the Supreme Court has noted the provisions under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (as well as the earlier enactment i.e. the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995) wherein these laws seek to provide access to public places in the following ways :

"22. The provisions of the Disabilities Act, 1995 and the Disabilities Act, 2016 have already been taken note of. These provisions emphasise the importance of providing non- discriminatory access by removing all physical barriers. More specifically, they seek to provide access to public places in the following ways:

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61. The court then summed up the points as follows :

"33. From the foregoing discussion, the following pertinent aspects can be discerned:

33.1. Ten action points which are enumerated by the petitioner, for providing proper access to public facilities to the persons suffering from visual disability, are now statutorily recognised under the Disabilities Act, 2016. To put it straight, the legislature has cast a duty on the executive wing for making provisions in this behalf. This legal position is accepted by the Union of India in its affidavit dated 23-8-2017. In this affidavit, the respondent had itself mentioned various provisions under the Disabilities Act, 2016 which mandate the respondents to make provisions for these facilities. Not only this, such provisions even specified the deadlines for undertaking these measures. Thus, it becomes a statutory obligation on the part of the Central Government as well as the State Governments to do the needful by the target dates.

(Emphasis by us)

62. We may note further that the Supreme Court issued directions to the Bureau of Indian Standards so far as Harmonised Guidelines and Space Standards for Barrier Free Built Environment for Persons With Disabilities and Elderly Persons was concerned :

"(ix) Bureau of Indian Standards to embed disability aspect in all relevant parts of revised National Building Code 34.9. It is expected that the respondents would regularly update the Harmonised Guidelines keeping in view the provisions of the Disabilities Act, 2016 and technological advancement vis-à-vis the needs of persons with disabilities."

90. It is also well settled that so far as the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act are concerned, the same is a general enactment.

91. It needs no elaboration that special statutory provisions with regard to specified classes of persons would prevail over any general enactment which overlaps on the subject matter. It cannot be contended or denied that the provisions of the Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016 is a special enactment concerned exclusively with the rights of the disabled ensuring empowerment of the disabled by promising equality and removal of discrimination in the spirit of the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Disabled and would override the provisions of any overlapping provision as contained in any general law such as the Motor Vehicles Act as well as rules and orders framed thereunder.