The son of a poor farmer, Anoop, who has a severe visual disability, was lucky enough to receive support from the National Association for the Blind, an NGO, from the time when he was in school. Accessibility tools such as a laptop with screen-reading software helped him fulfil his potential, says Dipender Manocha, president of the Delhi arm of the organisation.

Anoop went on to crack the prestigious National Law University examination and is now studying to be a lawyer at the university’s Delhi campus.
Many other Indians with disabilities are not so lucky. In fact, the lack of support and access to the right tools and opportunities may be one reason for the abysmally low representation of persons with disabilities (PwDs) in some of India’s largest companies. An analysis of disclosures by listed companies reveals that the share of PwDs is a negligible 0.46 per cent of their employee base. What’s more, PwD representation in these companies has dropped — it was 0.47 per cent last year.
Yet PwDs constitute 2.21 per cent of the general population, according to the 2011 census. And going by global averages, their number may well be as high as 10 to 15 per cent of the population.
Business Standard collected the data from hundreds of annual reports across periods as part of a yearly check on the representation of marginalised groups and discrimination against them among companies that are part of the S&P BSE 100 index. The analysis looked at 68 companies on whom there is data available over the last three years.

The issue of poor representation of PwDs in the labour force is not restricted to corporate entities alone. It is a serious problem across the country. Data from the 2011 census shows that in 35 out of the 36 states and Union Territories, most PwDs were not employed. The only exception was Nagaland, where 51.92 per cent of the PwD population was working. The all-India figure at the time was 36.34 per cent.
Source: https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/persons-with-disabilities-form-less-than-0-5-of-staff-in-india-s-top-firms-119111200206_1.html