Purple Fest 2025
Kartavya Desk Staff
Context: Purple Fest 2025 was organized by the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre (ISLRTC) in collaboration with Amity University, Noida.
• It celebrated inclusion, dignity, and empowerment of persons with disabilities (Divyangjan) through cultural, entrepreneurial, and educational activities.
About Purple Fest 2025:
• What It Is?
• A national-level festival celebrating the creativity, rights, and empowerment of Divyangjan. Aims to promote awareness, inclusivity, and accessibility for persons with disabilities.
• A national-level festival celebrating the creativity, rights, and empowerment of Divyangjan.
• Aims to promote awareness, inclusivity, and accessibility for persons with disabilities.
• Aim: Promote inclusion, raise awareness on assistive rights, empower Divyangjan through entrepreneurship & skill-building, celebrate talent via cultural & sports events, and strengthen capacity through ISL-focused training.
• Key Features:
• Art & Craft Exhibition: Display of products made by Divyangjan artisans. Entrepreneurship Stalls (22 stalls): Showcasing businesses led by Divyangjan. Cultural & Sports Events: Promoting participation and representation. Continuing Rehabilitation Education (CRE): Focus on Indian Sign Language (ISL) and professional knowledge sharing. Recognition of Achievements: Certificate of Appreciation awarded to Ms. Gurdeep Kaur Vasu, the first deafblind Indian to secure a govt. job under multiple disability category.
• Art & Craft Exhibition: Display of products made by Divyangjan artisans.
• Entrepreneurship Stalls (22 stalls): Showcasing businesses led by Divyangjan.
• Cultural & Sports Events: Promoting participation and representation.
• Continuing Rehabilitation Education (CRE): Focus on Indian Sign Language (ISL) and professional knowledge sharing.
• Recognition of Achievements: Certificate of Appreciation awarded to Ms. Gurdeep Kaur Vasu, the first deafblind Indian to secure a govt. job under multiple disability category.
Relevance in UPSC Syllabus:
• GS Paper II – Social Justice: Covers welfare of vulnerable sections and government policies for empowerment of Divyangjan. Linked to schemes like Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan (Accessible India), Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
• Covers welfare of vulnerable sections and government policies for empowerment of Divyangjan.
• Linked to schemes like Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan (Accessible India), Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
• GS Paper IV – Ethics: Promotes empathy, inclusivity, dignity, and equality in public service. Case study material on rights-based approach to disability.
• Promotes empathy, inclusivity, dignity, and equality in public service.
• Case study material on rights-based approach to disability.