Network of persons with disability Organizations (NPdO) has been functioning in the south Indian state of Andrapradesh .It is affiliated to the National Disabled Network, New Delhi, and Disabled People International, (DPI) Bangkok. NPdO is a Disabled People’s Organization managed by the people with disabilities. NPdO has been initiated by a group of likeminded Persons with disabilities, who met during their childhood at the Government Home for the Disabled. Initially the group has aimed to raise the voices of the persons with disabilities and issues through a publishing a Magazine named as VARTHA TEJA in the year 1996.
The magazine had very effectively disseminated information across the disability sector to understand the issues of each other and also had provided adequate information on various government schemes and policies for the persons with disabilities. Over a period of time the magazine had gained popularity in developing a cader of activists and CBOs through its journals. In this process, an idea has been emerged to bring all the persons with disabilities and the local CBO’s to a common platform and as a result a “Network of Persons with disability Organizations”(NPdO) has been initiated in the year 2003, with a vision to facilitate development among the persons with disabilities through empowering them socially, economically, culturally and politically following the gender equity.