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By IANSBENGALURU: Marking the International Wheelchair Day on Sunday, around 70 wheelchair-bound specially-abled people sought public spaces to use in this tech city. "There is need create awareness on wheelchair users' issues, such as access to public spaces to ride in the city," said Padmashri Malathi Holla, a wheelchair-bound evangelist for equal rights of specially-abled people. Urging the government to provide access to public places, including buses and restrooms, Karnataka Vikala Chethana Samstha member Kiran Nayak from Chikkaballapur town lamented that wheelchair users were not even treated as normal human beings. "In a cosmopolitan city like Bengaluru, they (wheelchair users) can't get onto footpaths, public places or even into buses. The state government should create access to public places by implementing the Public Works Department Act," said NGO Swaraj Abhiyan's president Manhohar Elavarthi..