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The past two decades have seen abundance of applications of Augmented Reality (AR), from gaming to medical, engineering, and academic fields. Certain work has been done to employ AR techniques for assisting the blind and visually impaired people to navigate in large indoor environments. This research contributes to the existing solutions by providing a viable technique, using merely a mobile phone camera and fiducial markers. The markers are detected and connected to generate a floor plan with the help of our proposed automatic path generation algorithm. Similarly, path augmentation algorithm efficiently populate the generated path with auditory and textual information. The proposed solution also provides a way to edit an already stored path when we need to extend the floor plan for inclusion of additional paths. An android application is developed to implement these algorithms. Time benchmarking the system shows effective results in automatic path generation, path augmentation, and path extension processes.