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| On World handicapped day govt greets them with arrests in Srinagar | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Dec 3: The World handicapped day was observed with a disturbing difference in the Valley today. Dozens of physically challenged persons including young boys, girls, middle-aged and old people were arrested by the police in order to stop their march to the Gupkar Residency of the State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, all in the name of maintaining law and order in the city!
The handicapped persons were peacefully protesting for the implementation of their demands which had been recognized by the State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah whom the office bearers of the handicapped association had met on 26th May 2011. After staging a peaceful protest in the Press Enclave in Srinagar, the handicapped persons marched to the Gupkar Residency of the State's Chief Minister in the city but they were stopped near the Sher-e-Kashmir Park in the city to prevent their onward march by the police who bundled them into waiting police vehicles.
It is shocking that the state administration cannot tolerate even a peaceful protest by someone like the physically challenged people who neither have the will nor the capacity to pick up a stone and hurl at the security forces.
The crime of the physically challenged persons which included many women was that they wanted prosthesis aids, artificial limbs for them so that they could carry on normal activities of life and earn an honest living that would spare them the disgrace to beg for a morsel of food on the road.
Among other demands of the handicapped persons were enhancement of the monthly pension, reservations for the physically changed in government jobs, setting up of separate counters to receive revenue payments from them, to afford concessions for the handicapped in payment of electric fees etc and to arrange for free treatment of the handicapped persons in all government run hospitals in the State. None of these demands raised by the handicapped persons are different from those raised by the similarly unfortunate persons in other states of the country. All that the democratically elected government could give the handicapped persons on the World day of the disabled persons in Srinagar was to arrest them so that they could not reach the Chief Minister's residence. |
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