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| Deaf & dumb children await Govt help | | |  Asif Iqbal Naik
Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Feb 17: Dejected from continuous failed promises, the village Dharkai of Gandoh in Doda District is facing a daunting task to coup up with the children born as deaf and dumb by birth.
The village has around 78 deaf and dumb children and despite repeated requests to successive governments to help these children also goes to deaf ears.
Now Indian army under operation Sadbhavna reach out to these children and help them by providing them with hearing aid beside deputing a trained teacher to teach them a sign language.
The people and the parents of the children are requesting the government to help them to come out of this day to day trauma beside to make these deaf and dumb children financially empowered so that they could led their peaceful life.
Speaking to Early Times, Jan Mohammad, a local resident of the Dharkai said that it was 4 RR who is presently helping them to come out of the trauma added that army is providing him the stiffen of Rs.1500 to teach them which is not sufficient for him.
“Army send me for training in special course meant for deaf and dumb children- after that they engage me for three months to train these 78 people” said Jan Mohammad, further added that government is not showing any keen interest towards these children of lesser God. He said that government has promised to open the school for these specially abled children, but nothing has been done and left them at the mercy of the God.
“I urged the government to look into the matter on humanitarian grounds - these children required special attention and care- treat them with dignity and honour” said Jan Mohammad.
Abdul Razak, father of 15 year old deaf and dumb told the Early Times that he spends lakhs of rupees on the treatment of his daughter and during all these years no government look at them.
“I took my daughter for heart related alignment treatment to Srinagar- I received not a single penny help from the government” said Abdul Razak.
Razak said that he knocked each and every doorstep of the people in power corridors as well as to government offices, but return disappointed every time.
He said as a father he is concern about the future of his daughter added that if anything happened to him- who will take care of his daughter and urged upon the government to secure the future of his innocent daughter and other like her.
“I am a labour and it is very difficult for him to meet his ends to run day to day affair as well as to take care of his daughter” said Abdul Razak who made a desperate appeal to the government to look into the matter and save them from this trauma so that they could led a peaceful life so as their children. |
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