NEW DELHI: The
Human Resource Development (
HRD) Ministry today said there was no proposal to set up a full-fledged
university for disabled people in the country.
Minister of State for HRD
Satypal Singh informed
Lok Sabha in written response to a question that "at present the government is not considering any proposal to set up a full-fledged university for disabled persons in the country".
According to the 2011 Census, Singh said, about 2.68 crore people are disabled, accounting for 2.21 per cent of the country's population.
