World of children with special abilities
Penning down my experience teaching visually impaired people and physically/mentally challenged people. The first day had arrived, and I saw the students playing cricket on the ground. They would make…
Differently Abled
Amplifying Hardships: The Impact of Poverty on the Lives of the Disabled
The government has taken significant steps to support and protect the rights of persons with disabilities through the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPWD Act) 2016, implemented on 19…
Only Half of the Budget for Disability Affected Persons Utilized in 10.5 out of 12 months
In the budget for financial year 2022-23 a sum of INR 1212 crore (one crore=10 million) was allocated (Budget Estimate or BE) for the Department of Empowerment of Persons with…
How we Treat Our Disabled : Our Not so Hidden Shame
In an incident that raised eyebrows recently, budget airline IndiGo denied boarding to a specially-abled child on a Hyderabad-bound flight at the Ranchi airport. The wheelchair confined boy in his…
The Disabled : The Invisible among us
A few days ago, I happened to visit an ATM to withdraw some cash. The ATM was located in a busy marketplace and in a narrow space between two shops.…
Sincere Efforts Can Contribute Much to Making Benefits and Schemes More Accessible for Disability Affected Persons
Many benefits and schemes available for persons with various disabilities cannot reach them, particularly in more remote villages, as much effort is needed for linking persons with disabilities (PwDs)…
Political Representation of PwD’s in India
The marginalised sections are ubiquitous in world societies. It is the feature of human history which has found its way through a historical process of marginalisation. Marginalisation pushed certain sections…
Disability is not limited to the body, it is also about mindsets
Very often it is our disabling attitudes that make life difficult for people with disabilities, rather than their own physical impairments. More than the disability itself, it is its psychological…
‘Empowering the Differently Abled’
India has roughly five crore incapacitated people. Persons with Disabilities (PwD) could in fact be as high as 5 – 6% of the total population. Almost half of them are…
Listen To The Disabled
The recently released circulars by NTA (national testing agency) and other institutions to conduct the entrance examinations is highly exclusionary in general and for the students with disabilities in particular.…
Disabled And The GST
At the midnight hour, when the whole world slept, India woke to life and freedom in the emotional words of Nehru'. But, again, in the midnight hour, India will…
Why Work Performed By Differently Abled Persons Do Not Get Due Recognition
Disability is not a curse, for those who actually live with it. It’s ironical, that those who are so called “able bodied” time and again make persons with disabilities realize…
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