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Imphal, July 14:
State Platform of Disabled People’s Organisation (SPDO) – a body of persons with disabilities today expressed their grievances as they can no longer tolerate the kind of harassment faced by them.
President of SPDPO, Yunus Khan, in a statement, said that persons with disability of either mental retardation or locomotor Disabilities are often harassed by calling them time and again by the official concern of the Social Welfare department in the name of verification when those authorities could have done in one time and issued the Unit Disability ID (UDID).
“It is important for a disabled person to get a disability certificate”, Yunus said, and for that assessment, camps were conducted in all districts by the DSWO and CMO with support and assistance from those working for the welfare of the persons with disability of all kinds. Yunus added that those persons with disability faced difficulties in attending the assessment camp as most are from poor families who cannot afford the fare to travel to the assessment campsite or some need to be volunteered by either family members or volunteers.
After conducting the assessment camp and after verification of the disability status, what is not happy with the persons with disability is that they have not been provided the UDID in time. For reasons best known those officers of the Social Welfare keep telling them to come again which indeed is a hard thing for disabled people.
While appealing to the government authority to treat the disabled people with love and care, by not harassing them, the SPDPO appealed to other organizations not to conduct donation drives in the name of disabled people.
