Persons with disabilities continue protest for fifth consecutive day demanding increase in monthly assistance

Over 700 persons with disabilities continued to protestation successful the metropolis connected Tuesday for the 5th consecutive day, demanding an summation successful the monthly assistance fixed to them by the State government.

Organised by the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC), the protestors demanded that the summation indispensable bespeak the ostentation successful prices of indispensable commodities.

“The State gives a paltry ₹1,500. A travel to the doc takes astir ₹600. Then, determination is doctor’s interest and medicine expenses. If determination is simply a request for a diaper, that’s different ₹1,800. So, the monthly assistance cannot past a month,” said Prema. M., who has a locomotor disability.

Farook Sheriff, a subordinate of TARATDAC, said that Tamil Nadu is the lowest paying State successful presumption of payment assistance for persons with disabilities. “We privation it accrued to ₹6,000 astatine the slightest truthful that we tin survive. The protestation volition proceed until our request is met,” helium said. The protestors were detained by the metropolis police.