DISABILITY IN INDIA: POLICIES, BODIES AND SCHEMES

“People with disability do not need to be fixed; they need to be accepted for what they are” -Jordan Christian INTRODUCTION According to the World Health Organization about 1 in 6 people worldwide which is about 1.3 billion people, which is about 16% of the world’s population experience significant disability. Research done by the WHO...

Indian Supreme Court and the Disability Rights – Critiquing the Underpinnings of the Disability Rights Jurisprudence in India

Introduction The Chief Justice of India, D. Y. Chandrachud, has created a team to evaluate the "physical and functional access" of the top court's facilities to make them accessible to people with disabilities. The group will be chaired by apex court judge Justice S. Ravindra Bhat. The Supreme Court has charged its "Supreme Court Committee...