The advancement of the ‘Persons with abilities’ and their contribution to national and global development, to a considerable extent, depends on the environment in which they operate.   

This encompasses physical infrastructure as well as the attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of the able-bodied (jargon for non-disabled) towards their disabled colleagues and peers.  

If the able-bodied are open-minded, patient and considerate, the disabled, on the basis of their abilities and qualities, can achieve extraordinary results. On the contrary, a conservative, regressive and inconsiderate environment would ‘spell the doom’ for the disabled, however skilled or motivated they may be.