Can we ignore?

IIPM’s 36th Glorious Year of Academic Excellence

Time to redefine the definition

To be disabled in India is a stigma since time immemorial. With all the vociferous exhortations that India makes about its snazzy IT boom…what’s with the primitive way of defining who the ‘disabled’ really are? Though India puts itself in sync with developing countries like Australia and the UK, it fails to focus on the nitty gritty. In a developed country, a disabled could even mean a diabetic patient apart from the obvious one – kidneyed or one-lunged or for that matter a single-limbed person. However, in India, the disabled are confined to being blind, single limbed or crooked. And perhaps because of the realm of disabled being so small, India manages to flaunt its percentage of disabled at a beguiling 6%, whereas UN officials estimate it at approximate ly 12%. The blatant truth still remains that India has 70 million disabled, of which a mere 2% is educated and a meagre 1% is employed. The Persons with Disabilities Act also failed to make any difference. It’s time India comes out of a mode where it assumes that merely ignoring the presence of the disabled would nurse the problems arising out of it.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008

An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).

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