Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik today expressed happiness over the state government's decision to provide a monthly allowance of Rs 2,500 to leprosy patients and stressed their was a need to change laws concerning them.
"It is a matter of happiness that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has accepted my request to provide a monthly allowance to leprosy patients in order to bring them into the mainstream (of the society) and this amount will directly go into their bank accounts," the Governor said at an event here.
"The government will also give Rs 3.05 lakh each to those suffering from the disease to build their houses," he said.
Naik said it has been proved that leprosy in not a communicable disease, and therefore laws like the one which allows divorce if one of the spouses is a leprosy patient needed to be changed.
