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: The problem of doing justice to people with physical and mental impairments is one of the major unresolved problems of social justice. The problems that are being faced by the differently-abled person have been really an issue to be looked upon. Numerous research and policy studies on disability indicate that all around the world there are approximately 15% of the world�s population has been suffering from disability of one form or the other. But on a positive note, the view of the society towards the disabled person has changed to a larger extent in these two decades. Now the disabled people are not seen as a subject of sympathy and charity but rather they are viewed as equal fellow and representative of the society and at par with the non-disabled counterparts. Such positive acceptance of the disabled persons by the society can be traced and found in the legal expression and construct of the legislature and the governmental instruments itself encouraging the social, economic and educational advancements and the way the government and private organizations taking initiatives to render equal opportunity to be in equal footing with the non-disabled counterparts is commendable. In this paper, the authors seek to study the effectiveness of the laws mandating access to public places to the disabled persons in India. The authors shall also analyze the challenges which the person with a disability still comes across in the present conditions in India and how the Accessible India Campaign is used to encourage the people with disability.