The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched Divyang Sarathi Mobile app
- It is an accessible and comprehensive mobile application for easy dissemination of information to ‘Divyangjans so that they can understand all details pertaining to the scheme, scholarship, statutes, institutional support systems and other relevant information.
- The app is integral part of ICT component of Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) launched in December 2015, also compliant with principles of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for Universal Access and provisions of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016
- The application was developed by Anunaya Jha and B Susheela.
- It has been developed bilingually (i.e. information is available in Hindi as well as English) and it has a unique feature which is audio notes (text to voice conversion) which converts the written information into an audio file.
- It can be accessed by any Android user.The mobile app aims to empower Divyangjans.
