Which one of the following is the odd one out with respect to buildings that are not designed for physical access?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Separate schooling streams for disabled students and others
Option (1) Staircases before the entrances to the court complex, with no ramp — Incorrect. Staircases at the entrances with no ramp shut out people who use wheelchairs. The building is not designed to admit them.
Option (2) Several steps to climb to reach the limited elevator facility — Incorrect. Steps that must be climbed even to reach a limited elevator are another physical barrier. Such a building keeps out people who cannot climb.
Option (3) Injured and old people carried up the stairs by companions — Incorrect. Injured and old people being carried up the stairs shows what such buildings force people into. It comes from the same lack of physical access.
Option (4) Separate schooling streams for disabled students and others — Correct. Separate schooling streams belong to the educational system. They marginalise disability by keeping disabled students apart from everyone else, and no building design is involved.
NCERT (2026-27): “5.4 The Struggles of the Disabled … “Recognition of disability is absent from the wider educational discourse. This is evident from the historical practices within the educational system that continue to marginalise the issue of disability by maintaining two separate streams – one for disabled students and one for everyone else.” |