After a 2022 Delhi HC order, the IRDA asked companies to introduce schemes for people with disabilities. While these schemes are listed on websites, accessing them is an uphill battle.
For Delhi’s disabled community, the pursuit of equity continues—this time with renewed optimism under the new government. Will it rise to the challenge and build an inclusive Delhi?
For this purpose, Dr Satendra Singh advocates for a collective effort by private players, government, and society in fostering inclusivity for welfare of the disabled.
Rather than just allocating huge sums to already well-compensated sports stars, state governments should also create a public fund to support athletes with disabilities.
Franklin D Roosevelt had polio, Stephen Hawking had ALS, and Elon Musk has Asperger’s—disabilities don’t make people less capable. IAS Smita Sabharwal needs to educate herself.
A sense of apology and guilt engulfed me because I had to depend on the help of strangers to access Isa Khan Tomb in the Humayun’s Tomb complex. I even blamed myself for visiting.
Wheelchair-bound Shabnam Khan's mother Soni would initially accompany her to school to help her to the washroom, feed her meals. Eventually, Soni was inspired to start learning herself.
The absence of wheelchair ramps at entrances to festival spaces, or judgmental stares when a child with sensory issues becomes overwhelmed at a pandal, send a clear message: Not welcome.
The Human Rights Watch, in a report, said that people with disabilities faced risk of death, physical, social, and mental health distress due to extreme heat.
With Elon Musk, who had Asperger’s growing up, we can hope the sacking of Twitter's accessibility team will be rectified soon and that this is merely the storm before the peace.
ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.
Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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