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Social concern
Accessible India Campaign
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ECO-SYSTEM ACCESSIBILITY BECA FOR SHARING SENSITIVE INFORMATION
OBJECTIVE: Converting 50 per cent of Central and State Governments
websites into fully accessible websites
ACHIEVEMENTS l When Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the
l Rs 26 Crore have been approved for making charge, out of 1,65,000 reserved posts for the
917 websites accessible and Rs 15.52 Crore people with disability, 14,500 posts were filled in
have been released a year
l By September 2020, 591 websites have been l Special campaign was launched to recruit
made accessible. Of these, 419 have been disabled people. The reservation quota was
displayed increased from three to four per cent
l At least 95 websites of Central Ministries and l In higher educational institutes, the reservation
Departments have been made accessible out of for disabled people has been increased from
the total 100 three to five per cent
OTHER CRUCIAL STEPS TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT l Legal provision for free education for children
l Between 1992 between the age of 6 and 18 years
and 2014, there l To make them independent, so far two
were only 56 Lakh disabled people have been given skill
programmes. In development training. The target is to reach 25
the last six years, Lakh by 2022
more than 9,000 l Establishment of Indian Sign Language
programmes Research and Training Centre. For the first time
have directly helped lakhs of people with in 70 years, a dictionary of 6,000 words has
disability been prepared
l Ten programmes organised by the Government l National Accessible Library allows disabled
for the people with disability have made it to the people to read newspapers, magazines and
Guinness Book of World Records books
inclusive opportunities for them. It has achieved Accessible India Campaign was launched. This
phenomenal success in its plan and objective included improvement in the physical and virtual
towards empowering them. infrastructure.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015 said,
WHO ARE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES? "When we interact with such people, we realise
People with visual, hearing, speech and that we see only the physical deficits with our
locomotive disability, mental retardation, mental eyes but the God has certainly bestowed them
illness, multiple disability or any other disabilities. with some extra powers." Persons with disability
As per Census 2011, there are 2.68 Crore people are excelling in almost all the fields and this can
with disability in India constituting 2.21 per cent be gauged fom the success of the Campaign.
of the total population. While, the Government is doing its bit, the onus
NEED FOR ACCESSIBLE INDIA CAMPAIGN is on the society and people to improve upon
Even as there were laws ensuring equal their approach towards Divyangs.
rights to persons with disabilities but the ground
reality was different. For achieving universal For more information visit www.accessibileindi.
accessibility for persons with disabilities, gov.in and www.disabilityaffairs.
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