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PM Modi likes $1 trillion disability sector vision for India: VOSAP founder Pranav Desai
We need a more sustainable model so that people's lives are not dependent on welfare or food stamps, but they produce and they enjoy and they live their life with dignity.
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Lalit K Jha - Sat, 14, Jun 2025
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Pranav Desai founder of Voice of Specially Abled People (VOSAP) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. / Image Courtesy-VOSAP
Pranav Desai is an innovator and influencer, advocate and entrepreneur for millions of specially disabled people worldwide. His organization, Voice Of Specially Disabled People (VOSAP) is a prominent UN-accredited disability NGO which uses technology platforms to empower and enthuse a mass movement of volunteers acting as change makers to achieve his vision: Create an inclusive and accessible and empowered society of special abled people.
Desai, a polio survivor, is an NRI, Vice President with IT services company NTT Data and an honorary advisor to the Government of India (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment). He started the VOSAP movement with advocacy efforts at policy level with Government of India to bring in structural changes to incentivise the disability sector and enable specially abled people to be independent and productive.
He spoke with Lalit K Jha of New India Abroad exclusively about his vision and current priorities. The interview comes in the wake of Desai presenting a VOSAP model, suitable for developing countries like India at a UN side event in the second week of June 2025. Excerpts:
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