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International Day Of Persons With Disabilities 2025: All you need to know about the day.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2025: Date, Theme, History, Significance and More Details

December 03, 2025 10:39 am

IDPD is celebrated annually on December 3, this year it is being observed on Wednesday, with the 2025 theme: “Fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress.”

Some notes on disability for Prime Minister Modi, with love

December 09, 2024 10:34 pm

The Prime Minister emphasised that respect for “divyangjan” is rooted in our cultural ethos, citing the Ramayana. While using religious texts in a deeply religious society may resonate, such deployments can be problematic, as these texts have historically marginalised disabled individuals, Dalits, women, and other oppressed groups.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2021: History, theme and importance

December 03, 2021 12:27 pm

The theme of the day is 'Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible, and sustainable post-COVID-19 world'

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Despite provisions, differently-abled students struggle for basic rights

December 04, 2021 10:06 am

Lack of infrastructure, insensitivity among invigilators, peers, and teachers, access to inclusive education, institutionalisation of rights are some of the major concerns often raised by the PwD candidates which are somehow acknowledged but not acted upon

Want to do the city proud, say specially-abled athletes on IDPA

December 03, 2021 5:30 am

🔴 The session saw some of the specially-abled athletes from the city sharing their views about the challenges and difficulties faced by them and the motivation to excel.

Three Indian startups win grant to assist people with disabilities through technology

December 04, 2020 10:10 pm

The inaugural Prosus Social Impact Challenge for Accessibility (Prosus SICA) marks the International Day of People with Disabilities on December 3.

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Explained: How much of India's population lives with disabilities?

December 03, 2020 11:10 pm

Definitions used over the years have differed, but the prevalence of disability has not changed significantly in official records.

World Disability Day: Just when Boccia had started to make its presence felt in India, Covid played spoilsport

December 03, 2020 7:50 pm

The Para Boccia Sports Welfare Society, India, with its head office in Punjab’s Bathinda district, has been promoting the game in India. This sport was introduced in India by Jaspreet Singh Dhaliwal, who is from a small village called Ablu in Bathinda.

World Disability Day 2020 aims to further increase the awareness about People with Disabilities while celebrating their achievements and contributions.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020: History, theme, significance of the day

December 03, 2020 10:50 am

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020: Also called World Disability Day, the theme for this year is 'Building back better: towards an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world by, for and with persons with disabilities'

Law promises people with disabilities equality of opportunity and accessibility, but our practices deny them that

December 03, 2020 6:35 pm

It is critical that the government work with civil society and individuals with disabilities to craft an India where everyone feels welcome and treated with respect, regardless of their disabilities.