International Day Of Persons With Disabilities 2023:
The Education Ministry is celebrating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities with a special quiz.
- Every year on 3rd December, International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed.
- The annual observance of this day began in 1992 after it was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3.
- In 2006, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was also adopted.
- It aims at working towards creating equality.
- Until the 2011 census, the questionnaire to identify people with disabilities, included questions on seven kinds of disabilities.
- This list of disabilities was expanded to 21 when the Rights of People with Disabilities Act, 2016 was introduced.
