Members of the All Differently Abled Welfare Association – an affiliate of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) – and all differently welfare association of Tamil Nadu staged a protest in front of the Coimbatore South Taluk office on Tuesday urging the State Government to rescind the Government Order stipulating conditions for differently abled to get monthly assistance.
P. Perumalsamy, district president of the association, said that on April 17, 2015 the Differently Abled Welfare Department had passed an order stating that differently abled persons should be orphan to receive the Rs. 1,000 which the State Government paid in monthly assistance.
Monthly assistance
This was unacceptable, he said and added that the differently abled went ahead to stage a protest because their petitions to senior officials had not yielded the desired result.
S. Punitha of the differently abled welfare association said that they also wanted the Government to increase the monthly assistance from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 3,000 a month. This was necessary given the increase in price of essential commodities.
She also urged the Government to fix the level of disability at 40 per cent to be eligible for benefits and avail of schemes and pointed out that Kerala, Puducherry and Karnataka State governments had done so.
