Edu, employment for people with disabilities govt's 1st priority: Satyapal Singh

Empowering people with disabilities by ensuring proper education and employment opportunities for them is this government's number one priority, Union Minister Satyapal Singh has said.

Presiding over the NCPEDP-Mindtree Helen Keller Awards 2018, here on Sunday, he said only one per cent of the people with disabilities get to go to schools.

"To address this issue, the government has recently announced five per cent reservation for people with disabilities in all kinds of educational institutions," the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development said.

"People with disabilities require real empowerment through the right kind of education and suitable employment, Singh said.

Arman Ali, the executive director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) said, "If we provide equal opportunities and reasonable accommodation, all jobs are suitable for persons with disabilities."