Disability Pension

Differently abled and derision have often gone hand in hand in mainstream Hindi cinema with numerous instances of impairments, visual, speech, physical and others, being used to get laughs mostly unkind. A trend activists and lawyers hope will end with the Supreme Court's recent game changing verdict. Stereotyping differently abled persons in cinema perpetuates discrimination and inequality, the apex court said last week while asking filmmakers to refrain from misleading portrayals and laying down terms such as crippled and spastic that should not be used. Humour can be an important element because it sometimes spreads the message about disability and acts as a tool for awareness, said Nipun Malhotra, who filed the petition that led to the Supreme Court verdict. "But there is a subtle difference between humour that is creating awareness and laughing at situations with people in disability space and humour that laughs at the disability itself. The Supreme Court, in its judgement, ha

Employees with disabilities being groomed for managerial roles, able-bodied workforce sensitised and trained in sign language

The Supreme Court has said army personnel will be entitled to disability pension only if the disability is attributable to military service or was aggravated by such service

Government financial support during and since the lockdown for persons with psychosocial disabilities from low-income families, many of which had lost income, was inadequate

However, there was confusion as to what system would be used to determine disability pension

Claims pensions have become easy source of tax-free supplementary income for senior officers, wants tax breaks removed

The govt accepted the 7th CPC recommendation to calculate disability pension according to a "slab system", based on rank

Defence ministry officials said the notification on the matter had not yet been published in the Gazette of India