World Disability Day 2021: After all, who and when did the word Divyang start, let’s know. 1 News Track English

World Disability Day 2021: Today i.e. on 3rd December, the whole world along with India is celebrating World Disability Day or World Disability Day. This day was started on this day on 3 December 1992. The purpose of celebrating this day is to show compassion, self-esteem and support to improve their lives for persons with disabilities.

history of world disability

The year 1981 was declared by the United Nations General Assembly as the “International Year of Persons with Disabilities”. But on the recommendation of the United Nations General Assembly, International Day of Disability was started in the year 1992. Every year since 1992, it is being celebrated continuously all over the world with lots of success. At the same time, in the year 2007, it was called ‘International Day of Disabled Persons’. At the same time, the United Nations has prepared an agenda for 2030, under which it is trying to ensure that even the disabled should not be left behind in their fast paced life. At the same time, a theme is also kept every year to celebrate this day. It is one of the most special days for people with disabilities.

PM Narendra Modi started the name of Divyang in Mann Ki Baat program

At the same time, the handicapped are now called handicapped instead of handicapped. But do you know from when the word Divyang has been started. In fact, in the Mann Ki Baat program of December 2015, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi (PM Narendra Modi) started the name Divyang instead of handicapped. After his suggestion, this word became popular and the same word is used. Let us tell you that before this, the Democratic National Committee of America used the word differently abled instead of handicap for physically handicapped people.

Number of Disabled in India

In India, such a person is taken as a disability, who is not less than 40 percent of the victims of disability on medical grounds. At the same time, according to the 2011 census, there are 2.68 crore disabled people in India, which is 2.21 percent of the total population. This includes 1.50 crore males and 1.18 crore females.

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