Wheelchair allows physically impaired people to move from one position to another. The wheelchair makes the physically impaired people independent. There are varies types of wheelchairs available in market. In this project the manual wheelchair is converted into the electric hand gesture-controlled wheelchair. The different hand gestures are assigned to different motions of the wheelchair. To identify the hand gestures the Accelerometer MPU6050 is used, which measures the angle of tilt in two axis and to read the output of MPU6050 the Arduino Uno is used, which takes the corrective action as per the different hand gestures assigned to each and every motion of wheelchair. To control the motion of wheelchair the relay modules are used which controls the rotation of motor. The operation of relay is controlled using an Arduino Uno and Arduino takes corrective action on the relay as per the sensor output which depends on the hand gesture. This type of chair is useful for handicap people and it makes them independent.