India, unlike other countries hasn’t addressed the issues of accessibility for people with disabilities quite well. Navigational systems that are built for people with vision usually work for people with hearing impairment and other disabilities. India has the largest blind population in the world. And these blind people face multiple issues in navigation. They depend highly on others for basic tasks like travelling to work everyday.

Commuting to a new place is filled with a number of difficulties even for a person with vision. In a city like Mumbai where there are multiple modes of transport and the population so large, anxiety only builds up for a person trying to travel. For a person without vision this only multiplies.

Mumbai’s rail network is extremely complex and one of the busiest in the world. There is no system in place that helps the blind understand this network and thus commute independently. And since the railways are one of the most preferred and important modes of transport in Mumbai, it becomes very important to understand it. This project is an attempt to aid blind people in understanding this network better by using a map and making them independent while travelling on the trains.

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