This will also be a meeting point for companies that wish to work for the disabled as part of their corporate social responsibility initiatives.

ARUNIM, with a corpus of Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million), is already on the move.

Its chairperson Sminu Jindal, who also heads Jindal Saw and an NGO Swayam, says she will soon appoint a researcher or consultant to identify the available products with the 800 NGO members of the National Trust.

These will now naturally become members of ARUNIM making it a huge cooperative network right from the beginning.

Image: Physically challenged children play with gulal at a special school during Holi in Mumbai. | Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images.