Why are PwD not accessing Government Schemes in Goa? A while back, a prominent daily carried a story that an astonishingly few number of People with Disabilities (PwDs) were accessing government schemes. Strange, because even a State like Goa should has a sizable number of PwD. According to the WHO about 7-10% of the population [...]
Eyes on the future IN PERSPECTIVE The Government should address low vision problems in children. It is widely believed that there are over 120 million people worldwide with Low Vision (LV), a condition that cannot be corrected, cured or treated by conventional medicine or surgery. Over 90 per cent of these people with LV live [...]
Spinal Cord Injury Besides physical and psychological rehabilitation, persons with SCI also need economic independence to lead a dignified life. It is difficult to hazard a guess on the number of people that exist in India with Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI). However, it could well be somewhere between the Chinese figures of 65 cases per [...]
PWDs: Need for a better deal IN PERSPECTIVE People with disabilities, who number 70 million, are demanding political space. Sixty years on, after the forefathers of this country attempted to seamlessly bind the socio-economic and political faultiness through various provisions, inequality continues to be the persistent hallmark of India. In this scenario, the highly debatable [...]
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