Topic of the day-Disability

What?

-lacking in capability which other people posses and such lacking hinder in day to day working

Types

1.Physical

2.Mental

Data

1.8-10% of people in India

Laws

1.Disability law,2016

2.UN Convention on right of  person with disability-India 1st one to ratify

3..unique disability certificate so that person are not denied welfare service when migrate from one state to another.

4.institutions-National centre for employment of people with disability

5.Ministry-Ministry of social justice and eempowerment

Issues

1.Attitudanal of people toward disabled is not of empowering them

2.Not involving disabled in the polocy making regarding them

3.Not factorising disabled perspective while framing various policies like Smart Cities etc

4.Implementation of scheme for disabled is lacking

5.lack of employment

6.regional differences in emp to disabled btw bigger and smaller cities--talent vs social cohesiveness--also availibiliy of training institute in smaller cities and not in bigger cities, regional level to english need

7. policy gap--lack of reservation for memtal illness but its there for other like speech,eye etc--disparity btw type of disability

8.men-female emp gap--

9.social stigma

10.lack of infrastructure in cities due to

-unplanned developmeng

-growth is not high--less resources to give consideration

-lack of cohesive voice

-social stigma

-lack of awareness of rules

-lack of funds

11..infrastructure not disabled friendly-like no braille in lift, no audio traffic announcemnet, school, public spaces not friendly, websites not friendly

12.lack of awareness among public

13..lack of awareness of rights by disbaled person

Benefit of empowering them

1.Human Right encouragement

2.they can provide upto 7% of national gdp if properly empowered

3.can enhance economy by acting as consumer

Solutions

1.use of tech

2.new building design -no permission w/o disbled friendly

3.using garv like app--to monitor

4.fixing loopholes in policy

5.awareness campaign

6Using role of NGO

7.implementaion of un convention of disability

8.seperate parking spaces for disbled

9.transport disabled friendly

------Disability act,2016----

A-4% reservation in govt jobs and 5% in higher educational institute.

B-increase recognition of disability from 7 to 21

C-Infrastructure compatibility

D-digital infrastructure compatible

E-incl private sector as well in infrastructure compatibility

F-incorporating design principle while during designing so that no need for retrofitting later on

G-web content disability guidelines

H-timeline fixed for implementation of provisions

I-punishment in case of non-complaince of act

Issue with act

1.not implemented well

2.no talk of fund

3.disabled are not involved in making policy

4.integrated approach is required between various ministers but dealt with just 1 ministry

5.lack of emphasis on public awareness which is must to change of attitude of people towards disabled.

Q-Disabled constitutes 8-10% of India's population. How can we make such huge demograph as part of development rather thab being dependent on development.?. Analyse the steps that government has taken in this regard recently.?

Qustn for Prelims

Select the correct option

(i)-Disabled welfare comes under Ministry of social justice and empowerment

(ii)-There is 3% reservation for disabled in government as well as private sector