Developments in the IPL, under consideration of the High Court for providing facilities to the differently abled persons are that the Division Bench has asked the Governments of UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to place before it, a specific action plan that was evolved to provide the required facilities to the differently abled persons. It is unfortunate to note that despite court intervention, nothing tangible on the ground is visible to be in place . The court has , therefore , given fresh directions to the General Administration Department and the Social Welfare department in this respect.
However, expressing displeasure over the levels of progress made, the court observed that the report filed by the Social Welfare Department was not even complete in the sense it did not mention in it dates and on whom behalf it was filed. Beyond setting up of two training centres one each at Srinagar and Jammu, the report had nothing more to advise. Unless we take due care of the vulnerable sections of the society like the ones under reference, and arrange to ”give” them what is due to them , the very purposes of the departments like Social Welfare etc gets somewhat defeated. The court, as such, did not approve of the ‘lackadaisical approach ‘ of the Social Welfare Department in dealing with the issue. Census of persons with disability, though orders for the same having been given last year, continues to be pending. We must, at least, have important data about this section of the society . We expect, under the directions and monitoring of the issue by the High Court , concerted and required action plan for better living conditions of differently abled would be formulated and implemented scrupulously.
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