Selja also spoke about the projects undertaken by her

ministry to make heritage and national monuments accessible and measures to develop technologies for their communication. Forty-eight people with various forms of disabilities were awarded by Mukherjee for overcoming various physical and mental limitation and excelling in their lives. Noting that the government should fill the backlog in vacancies, he said, "I also request the private sector to employ more and more persons with disabilities in their establishments and industries."