The Gateway for the people with Special needs: Connecting people to information and services through web portal

This paper describes a research project which developed a Web Portal for the peoples with disabilities or people with special needs and their family members (if any of them are disabled).In India 2.21% of total population in India has disability . In them 2.41% of male population in India is disabled and 2.01% of female population are disabled[7] according to stats of 2021A web portal has been developed as part of a research project undertaken as a part of minor project. The project objective is to engage service-users with disabilities in the management of services. Service-users play a pivotal role in guiding the process through construction of content, trialling and evaluation of a web ‘portal’ for the disabled.