Delhi plans to consult a disability expert in the planning, design and implementation of its master plan to make the national capital disabled-friendly.

The move will be in keeping with the demand of disability activists to make the city disabled-friendly by 2021.

The Delhi government has agreed that a disability expert on access would be involved at every stage of the planning, design and implementation of the master plan, a press statement said Thursday.

In response to recommendations made by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) regarding proposed modifications to Delhi in the context of the master plan, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit promised to forward them to central Urban Development Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad.

According to NCPEDP's recommendation, the different categories of disabilities that need to be addressed include blindness, low vision, the leprosy-cured, hearing impairment, loco-motor disability, mental retardation and mental illness.