Minister Social Justice and Empowerment speaking * We are working hard on RPD bill . * Providing Universal ID Card * Government will ensure persons will live life of dignity and with security * Centre for universal design is about to be established * We hope that this conference will provide a roadmap so that economic inclusion of disabled people will be brought about * Smriti Irani: Minister of HRD * Quality education should be available to all * steps MHRD have taken for disabled people * Over 25 lakhs children receive adaptive skills across the country * If a student has special needs he/she will be provided special concession * the MadanMohon Malviya teacher training scheme to teach 'special children will be launched soon Citing Modi: "mind is never a problem mindset is" * UNESCO speaker: citing Gandhi: "Caring for disabled is like religion, serving them is like service" * Stuti Kakkar Secretary of Department of Disability Affairs * One needs to find affordable technologies for disabled people * What department has done * Giving aids and appliances to persons with disabilities; trycycles and wheelchairs. We also give Daisy player and smartcanes. We are also concentrating on providing skill development training to disabled people. * We have ALIMCo It was set up in 1972, we are putting 2 hundred crores to upgrate ALIMCO. Recently it has developed motorized vehicle. * Representative from Samsung * How Samsung is working for providing ICts * Manufacturing products such as smart phone s, accessible TV * Those who can not see we have developed a mouse which can access computer in the same way * Eva Androson from Google accessibility * We work to make search feature easier and accessible for persons with disabilities. Search is the window in to the world's information * We also manufacture accessible Google Android phone * Google is working on GPS. * Representative from IBM World Research * We hired person with disability in 1914 * We installed braille printer in our office in 1975 * We have recently announced Chief Accessibility Officer post * We need to start massive online Education so that education could be delivered freely. * We have 9 hundred million phones in India. * Speaker: RC Gaur Chief Librarian JNU * We have set a digitization cell in the university * We should have national resource Centre where contents could be archived. It would be helpful for avoiding duplication * There should be Career counseling for persons with disabilities. * JNU has proposed a proposal to create a national resource Centre we will work upon it. * Speaker: Professor Sudesh Upodhya: Chairperson of RCI * If education is sceen as a means of self-reliance how we can provide education to disabled children in the country. * Some times Techno-literacy is easier than literacy. Mentally challenged was sitting with computer with corded colours and it was his first interaction with the technology. * Digital divide itself is a challenge for disability sector. *
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