within the limits of Kochi city by providing safe and hindrance free footpaths to access the roads. According to the petitioner, the respondents have miserably failed to protect the rights and interests of the differently abled people by curtailing their right due to the poor maintenance of footpaths within the limits of the Kochi city, thereby affecting their fundamental right for free movement and to practice any profession or to carry on any occupation, trade or business, right to livelihood etc. It is also submitted that Section 346 of the Kerala Municipality Act, 1994 ('Act, 1994' for short) casts duty on the first respondent Corporation to make the public streets and bridges vested in it and under the control of it to be maintained and repaired at the cost of the municipal fund and to meet the cost of all improvements to the same, which are necessary or expedient for the public safety or convenience. Therefore, the Municipal Corporation as well as the Public Works Department are duty bound to discharge their duties by making appropriate, timely and proper repairs of the public roads vested in them under law so as to facilitate the requirements of differently abled persons also, and though the petitioner had approached the Corporation and the Public Works Department with Exts. P4 and P5 representations no action was initiated by them to redress the grievances, which persuaded the petitioner to approach this Court. In the above background, the following reliefs are sought for:
