Hello awesome blossom Google Local Guides this is the RECAP post of the “Independence Day Santipur Ferry-Ghat Accessibility Meetup” was held on 15th August 2021 from 10.00 A.M. to 12.30 P.M. (IST) at Guptipara Santipur Ferry Ghat. This meetup was a part of #AccessibleBengal, an initiative to update the Accessibility status on maps by West Bengal Local Guides (WBLG). This meetup was also a part of the celebration of the “5th Anniversary of the Google Local Guides programme”.
Picture 1:
Caption: Local guides were celebrating 75th Indian independence day 2021 on 15th August during the meet-up. In this picture lg @TravelerProdipta held the national flag of India on a boat on the river Ganges.
During the meet-up, we local guides -
⦁ Checked the accessibility for wheelchair users.
⦁ Checked the availability of seating arrangement for special needs persons.
⦁ Checked the availability of the accessible toilet.
⦁ Checked the availability of ramps.
First of all I would like to discuss some basic information before going through the details.Guptipara Santipur “Ferry Service” is the only connection between Hooghly and Nadia district. One can reach from Guptipara (Hooghly) to Santipur (Nadia) and from Santipur (Nadia) to Guptipara (Hooghly) through the Guptipara Santipur “Ferry Service” and there are two boats and two jetties available here. Ferry service starts from 6 a.m. in the morning and ferry service closes at 8 p.m. at night. Life jackets are available here and daily more than 1000 passengers avail the ferry services. So many people avail the service just for a joy ride over the beautiful river Ganges (Bhagirothi). Anyone can avail the service to purchase a ticket of ferry service from the ticket counter. During the meetup we checked, but did not find any wheelchair accessible toilet and seating arrangement for special needs persons and any other person at Guptipara ferry ghat. The ferry service opens at 6’o clock in the morning and the service sustains till 8 p.m. We also updated the location on “Google Maps”. During the meet-up, we found, the name of ferry ghat was wrongly shown as “Guptipara Ferry Ghat”, we suggested an edit to correct the name of the ferry ghat as " Guptipara Santipur Ferry Ghat" (The name was editted correctly on 15th August and I received an email regarding the matter from Google Maps. Thank you Google Maps.)
Guptipara Santipur Ferry Ghat Location at Google Maps
https://goo.gl/maps/S5eSGmwrMAsEzERXA
We also suggested few another edits and we added place during the meet-up. Now I would like to discuss the matters in details, we marked the wheelchair icon " 
" marking " 
" for PASSED and " 
" for FAILED …
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Caption: Wheel-chair accessible ticket counter of Guptipara Santipur ferry-ghat.
Picture 3:
Caption: Non concrete jetty ( Jetty 1). Which is accessible for all.
Picture 4:
Caption: Non concrete jetty ( Jetty 1). Which is accessible for all.
Picture 5:
Caption: Non concrete jetty ( Jetty 1). Which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all. The vessel from non concrete jetty was carring the passenger and cars.
Picture 6:
Caption: Concrete pavement jetty (Jetty 2) at Guptipara ferry ghat which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all. ( Picture was taken from river jetty side)
Picture 7:
Caption: Concrete pavement jetty (Jetty 2) at Guptipara ferry ghat which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all. ( Picture was taken from river jetty side)
Picture 8:
Caption: Concrete pavement jetty (Jetty 2) at Guptipara ferry ghat which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all.
Picture 9:
Caption: Concrete pavement jetty (Jetty 2) at Guptipara ferry ghat which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all.
Picture 10:
Caption: Concrete pavement jetty (Jetty 2) at Guptipara ferry ghat which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all.
Picture 11:
Caption: Concrete pavement jetty (Jetty 2) at Guptipara ferry ghat which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all.
Picture 12:
Caption: Toilet at Guptipara ferry ghat which is not wheelchair accessible.
Accessibility at a glance :
Wheel-chair accessible ticket counter of Guptipara Santipur ferry-ghat.
Non concrete jetty ( Jetty 1). Which is accessible for all.
Concrete pavement jetty (Jetty 2) at Guptipara ferry ghat which is wheelchair accessible and accessible for all.
Toilet at Guptipara ferry ghat which is not wheelchair accessible.
This meetup was also a part of accessibility for all movement. Thank you all for reading the post.
Stay safe.
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