Portals for delivering public services to give special focus on differently-abled: MeitY official

New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and IT is working with other ministries to develop portals where public services can be delivered to citizens through a single platform, with special focus being given on the portal’s accessibility to persons with disability, a senior government official said on Thursday. MeitY Additional Secretary Rajendra Kumar said the government is looking to enhance the share of digital economy to 20 per cent of the GDP in the next 5 years from 5-8 per cent at present, for which it needs to focus on optimum digitisation of resources.

“We are working with all ministries to ensure that their digital interfaces can be transformed. In that transformation, we are keeping accessibility issues in the centre,” Kumar said at the Broadband India Forum program on Global Accessibility Awareness Day.