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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jharkhand fails disability test -Ananya Sengupta

Jharkhand fails disability test -Ananya Sengupta

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published Published on Apr 12, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 12, 2013
-The Telegraph


Bihar and Jharkhand are among eight states that are holding up moves to update national legislation on rights of people with disabilities, prompting an angry Union minister to slap them with an April 12 deadline for sending feedback on the draft bill.

Minister for social justice and empowerment Kumari Selja has, therefore, written to the Governor of Jharkhand, Syed Ahmed - it is under President's Rule and chief ministers of seven states, Nitish Kumar (Bihar), Akhilesh Yadav (Uttar Pradesh), Parkash Singh Badal (Punjab), N. Kiran Kumar Reddy (Andhra Pradesh), J. Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu), Tarun Gogoi (Assam) and Manik Sarkar (Tripura).

In her letter, Selja has said that the lack of comments on the "important" bill, which seeks to remove yawning gaps in the existing law, had delayed the ministry's intention of finalising it for the Union Cabinet's approval.

The draft of the new disability bill has been in the pipelines for the past two years. Now, the minister has asked the states to get back to her by April 12, failing which her ministry will assume that they had no comments or recommendations to offer.

Selja has also said in her letter that a copy of the Rights of Persons With Disability (RPwD) Bill had been sent by the secretary, department of disability affairs in September 2012 and the matter had been subsequently followed up with the states. But none of them sent their comments.

"I shall be grateful if you could instruct the concerned officials to send the comments/suggestions, if any, on the draft RPwD bill by April 12, 2013, to enable this ministry to further proceed in the matter in getting the proposal finalised. If no comments are received by that date, we would presume that your state government has no comments on the matter," the letter said.

Selja's letter also said that since states were primarily responsible for the welfare of people with disabilities, it was imperative that they gave their inputs on the matter.

The ministry had appointed a committee to draft the new legislation to replace the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. The committee gave its final draft in June 2011.

The draft bill had been posted on the ministry's website for suggestions from civil society as well as disability groups. Sources indicated that the ministry was keen to table the bill during Monsoon session of Parliament in July-August.

The bill, after it was reshaped with inputs from states, would be put up for inter-ministerial consultations and then presented before Cabinet.


The Telegraph, 12 April, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130412/jsp/frontpage/story_16775831.jsp#.UWeM7jfcing


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