-The Hindu The facility will povide support to infants and young children at risk of or with disabilities. The Union Social Justice and Empowerment (SJE) Ministry on Thursday launched 14 cross disability early intervention centres across the country to provide support to infants and young children at risk of or with disabilities. SJE Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot virtually inaugurated the centres that are located at seven national institutes and seven composite regional centres of...
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UP government’s schemes and grants are failing to reach people with disabilities: RTI -Abhishek Sahu
-CaravanMagazine.in In December 2019, M Venkaiah Naidu, the vice president, on behalf of the union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, presented the Uttar Pradesh government the National Award of Excellence for doing a “commendable” job in the field of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities. The state received a total of three awards for doing “excellent” work for people with disabilities. In contrast, the response to a right to information application...
More »Transgender rules issued: no medical exam needed to declare desired sex -Esha Roy
-The Indian Express The Rules, first released as a draft in July, inviting objections and suggestions, had been criticised by the LGBTQ community for “taking away’’ their dignity by mandating that a third person, such as a District Magistrate, would verify, and subsequently certify the gender of a person. Transgender persons who want to declare their desired sex will no longer have to go through a medical examination in order to do...
More »How India’s disabled community fought to halt a legislative change amid the lockdown – and won -Nipun Malhotra
-Scroll.in A government plan to dilute the Disabilities Act to enable ease of doing business was blocked even though the usual tools of protest were unavailable. It was last Thursday, July 2, that my phone started buzzing with notifications from friends and fellow members of the disabled community. The day earlier, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment had quietly released a notification under the ‘What’s new’ section of their website titled...
More »People With Disabilities Can't Be Too Joyful Over Rollback of Amendments to the RPWD Act -Shameer Rishad
-TheWire.in The Centre attempted to take blatant advantage of the COVID-19 situation. And those that stood to lose the most have been saved by a whisker. On July 2, 2020, the disability sector in India received a shock as the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE) came out with a draft proposing amendments to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act of 2016 to ‘decriminalise minor offences’. Further, only select disability...
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