“We don't need sympathy but need an opportunity”
By virtue of being human beings, we are born with inherent dignity. But such dignity is not virtuously present with everyone. In India large chunk of disabled masses are living undignified, unequal and unjust lives. Even don’t acquire valuable participation in society on an equal basis with others as being characterized as pathological entities. The real problem is not the blindness or disability but institutional agencies working are blind. Every person is with their own different capacities or strengths which need to be attuned. Since everyone are neither especially blessed nor especially cursed.
In the ambit of Human Rights for Disabled People, disability is a conviction that are most restricting and debilitating features in the lives of disabled people, which were not a necessary or inevitable consequence of living with impairment. The restrictions were socially and politically constructed and could therefore be changed by social and political means with sociolegal factors. It was two decades ago Government of India passed Persons with Disabilites (PwD) Act 1995, with the passage of time in spite of empowering provisions it remained darker side of same coin which remained woefully inadequate. Despite all these it failed to reach the disabled masses truly. Since there is no proper barrier-free transport facility, road or building environment even the assistive tactile around the pathways are purely way to hell. In 2007 UNCRPD (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities) finalized to protect and promote rights and dignity of persons with disability of persons, it reminded the remarkable shift needed in the attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities.
In modern era Human rights needed to be realized through advancements in technology and innovation as well as through progressive minds. Here 21st CE marks new era of sophisticated digital high-tech technology, need consonance with this changing environs. Here the future of modern India can be visualized blindly when we break the shackles and barriers of knowledge and disabilities.
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