Persons with disabilities stage protest demanding increase in monthly assistance; detained by police

Over 700 persons with disabilities protested successful Chennai connected Tuesday demanding an summation successful monthly assistance for disablement successful Tamil Nadu. All of them were detained by the metropolis police.

In a State-wide protestation led by the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC), protestors demanded that the assistance beryllium raised to ₹6,000 connected par with that of Andhra Pradesh. Presently, persons with disabilities person monthly assistance of ₹1,500 to ₹2,000.

“These costs nary longer warrant the outgo of living. There are assorted expenses that a idiosyncratic with disablement volition person to screen from medicines and nutrient to proscription and if determination is nary livelihood, this is each they trust on. There is an urgent request for an summation successful the assistance,” said Namburajan, All India moving president, TARATDAC.

Stating that the protests volition proceed time too, P. Jhansi Rani, president, TARATDAC, added: “This is our lone request now. We privation the authorities to fulfill it and the protests volition proceed until our 1 request is met.”