The Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry on Thursday extended the time for feedback on its draft national policy on disability from Friday (July 15) to August 31, while activists continued to raise demands for translations into sign language and regional languages.
This was the second extension given by the Ministry’s Department of Empowerment of Persons of Disabilities (DEPwD), after a one-week extension was given from July 9 to Friday (July 15).
In a public notice on its website, the PwD Department said a further extension had been given till August 31. The draft policy said there was a need for revision as the existing policy on disability was drafted in 2006. Since then, there have many changes, including India singing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007 and Parliament enacting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
