The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched India's first Sign Language Dictionary of 3000 words.

• The dictionary is available both in print format and vidoe format.
• The terms in the dictionary have been divided into - Everyday Terms, Legal Terms, Academic Terms, Medical Terms and Technical Terms.
• The dictionary will be beneficial to at least 50,71,007 deaf people and 19,98,535 people with speech disability in India.
• The significance of the dictionary lies in the fact that this will provide deaf people constitutional right to speech and opportunity of freedom and expression and will also bring them into main stream of society.