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During a peculiar grievance redress meeting, the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) submitted a database of demands to District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar.
A. Balamurugan, District Secretary of TARATDAC, noted that though these meetings are scheduled to hap each 3 months, the existent league was held aft a six-month delay.
Taking vantage of the session, Balamurugan said, they raised respective long-standing issues, specifically calling for the afloat implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (2016) to guarantee adjacent entree to each nationalist spaces.
Mr. Balamurugan highlighted that numerous public spaces—including authorities offices, autobus stands, malls, and hospitals—still deficiency indispensable accessibility features similar ramps with handrails and due connection systems.
He specifically pointed to the Periyar Bus Stand, wherever the toilets remain inaccessible to wheelchair users. “These cannot beryllium dismissed arsenic specified operation defects,” helium noted, “as State-built nationalist facilities are legally mandated to comply with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act.”
Furthermore, helium called for the installation of tactile flooring successful some the aged and caller Collectorate buildings to assistance visually impaired visitors navigate independently.
He added that the existent deficiency of braille signage forces visually impaired individuals to trust connected others, a hurdle that could beryllium solved by placing braille boards passim each authorities offices.
Additionally, he requested that the medication to organise a peculiar campy to contented driving licenses to otherwise abled individuals who person already been provided with retrofitted two-wheelers by the government.
Most importantly, helium urged the inclusion of otherwise abled ration cardholders successful the Tamil Nadu government’s ‘Thayumanavar’ scheme, which would assistance them the eligibility to person Essential Commodities (PDS) straight astatine their doorsteps.
Mr. Balamurugan appealed to the District Collector to regularise and streamline the peculiar grievance meetings, noting that a accordant docket is indispensable to prevent long delays in resolving the community’s issues.
