Underground lifts, ramps, platforms thathave wheel chair access, toilets for the disabled—this is the Bombayhigh court’s vision to make railway platforms disabled friendly.     TheHC on Thursday sought a report on the facilities for disabled atrailway platforms in Mumbai. Hearing a public interest litigation onthe lack of such facilities, a division bench of Chief JusticeSwatanter Kumar and Justice V M Kanade asked lawyers Mihir Desai andSuresh Kumar to visit Mumbai Central station for verifying the groundreality at railway platforms. The report has to be submitted before thenext date of hearing which is scheduled for July 10.     “Rightfrom the stage that a person gets out of his car at the parking lot tothe time he boards a train, the railway stations should make availabledisabled friendly facilities,’’ said the Chief Justice. The court washearing a PIL filed by India Centre for Human Rights and Law to makeurban transport in the city accessible to the disabled.     Enactedin 1995, the Persons with Disability Act sets out a specialnon-discrimination clause that makes it mandatory for the governmentand other agencies to make public spaces and transport facilitiesdisabled friendly. The Act proposes to make rail compartments, aircraftand ships easily accessible to challenged persons. The Act alsostipulates the government to provide for auditory signals at trafficsignals, engraving on the surface of zebra crossings and railwayplatforms and warning signals for the challenged.     Thoughat present railway platforms are provided with auditory signals toindicate location of the special compartment for physically challengedpersons, there are no other facilities. Low platforms and pedestrianover bridges make railway stations generally out of bounds forphysically challenged persons, claimed the petition.