Empowerment Of Persons With Disabilities

About 2.68 Crore people living with one or the other form of physical disability in India. Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) are often considered as a burden, but performance of India at Paralympics games shows us their true potential, if such persons are given with proper environment.

• Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has been entrusted with the responsibility of ensuring welfare of PwDs.
• Many schemes and policy initiatives has been taken by the Department. Few of them are discussed below-

Unique Disability Identification (UDID) Project

It was launched in 2018 with the objective of creating ....