Posts Tagged ‘Government’
Why are PwD not accessing Government Schemes in Goa?
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: October 14, 2008
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 in [...]
Eyes on the future
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: May 23, 2008
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 in developing countries.
According [...]
Spinal Cord Injury
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: March 13, 2008
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 million [...]
PWDs: Need for a better deal
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: May 7, 2007
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 system of reservations [...]
Lillian @ Poetry
- Advertising Cloud 9The horizon in shades of green,Water tanks, blue and black,Clothes of all hues waving in the breeze.Cloud 9 advertising its services,Who would think, it would need to?But it does,Its the recession.
- Untitledoh why does my soul refuse to rest.it bounds up,against gravity,like there were thorns that pricked its underside.refusing it rest.oh my soul has a bloody breasta weary heartthat longs to rest,but somehow each night is dayin its unending search to run away.
- UntitledI stare out,As the orange-pink of sunsetFades away into silhouettes,Large dark trees, rise upAnd the cold road leads away.The breeze whips at my face,The curtains buffeted in the strong wind,Fly around uncontrollably like shreds,My heart feels the same,As it leaves sweet memories behind.Parting can never be harder.15th April 2009
- Happy Women’s Day?.......... I beg your pardonIts 8th March, International Women’s DayBut she doesn’t know it.She wakes up at 6.00 a.m,like she has for the last 12 years,her mental clock and love for her family helps her up.she fills the rice into the cooker, chops up the vegetables in the yellow light of the bulb.The chickens in their coop stir, at the first break of light.the brass pot rolls down on t […]
- Un-namedI want to writeBut wordsTremble within meThen die.I dig through my memoryFor experiencesFor verseBut all I find is gooey morass.I yearn to riseBe the bestBut the forceEludes meA phantom. There they areThe first buds of springOr is it a mirageThe sightings of a deluded soul8th February 2008
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