By Sandeep Datta

New Delhi, Dec.3 (ANI): As the nation takes its time in realising the sensitivity of the disabled citizens even after half a century since gaining freedom, the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) is making a difference to their world as a Woodpecker in a forest.

Describing the role this non-governmental organization is playing, NCPEDP’s Director Javed Abidi says the organization is primarily an advocacy organization and plays a crucial role towards creating a better environment for the disabled to live in.

“It looks at various policies in three ways. First, if there is no policy we would advocate for a policy. Two, if there is policy but that’s an old policy, we look at …or it’s an archaic policy, we would argue that it should upgraded, should be changed, should be improved. Third, when there is policy and it’s a good policy like it’s good for the nation, good for the disabled people of India and then it’s not being implemented then that’s where we focus on the work. We focus on advocacy on implementation. That broadly classifies the work we do,” says Mr. Javed Abidi, Director of NCPEDP in the national capital.

Javed tells that the organisation’s paradigm, its theory is that employment is not possible without education. And both are not possible without access. And, none of them is possible without legislation.

“Till there is no law, things will not change. We are working in all these areas and not just employment,” he says.

He tells how despite it being a 21st century and the country being on the information highway there has been least concern for the disabled in this steady development.

“We have got more than 5,000 Govt. websites, excluding private sector. We are living in an age where you can buy you cinema tickets on a website, book rail ticket on a website, apply for passport , and can do all sorts of things including filing of income tax return. But none of the websites were accessible to the blind!,” Abidi informs.

He tells today technology is there. The speech software with which blind people can operate like they can send E-mails, they can type or do anything. Similarly, they can excess the websites too.