differently-abled

The Supreme Court on Fri...

As the Supreme Court committee on access to justice for the differently-abled persons is in the process of assessing the ground situation, hopes are high that the CJI-initiated project will create conducive conditions for the target group.

The Supreme Court has invited people from all walks of life, apart from disability rights experts and the differently-abled themselves, to give suggestions on making the Apex Court more accessible to these people

The Madras High Court has observed that the Differently Abled Visually Impaired Persons cannot be equated with Differently Abled Persons who are ineligible to get any employment on account of the sickness and infirmity suffered by them.

India is one of the countries with a high prevalence rate of persons living with disabilities. The disabled are in every single place from the streets of Delhi to the streets Mumbai.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday has issued notice to the Delhi University on a plea seeking directions to make available educational instructions to specially-abled students in the same manner as they have been made abundantly available to other students.

The Allahabad High Court on Thursday has issued notice on the Public Interest Litigation seeking directions to all the schools affiliated with C.B.S.E to waive off the fee of the special need children/ the children covered under the benchmark disabilities provided under the Disabilities Act, 2016.

A Division Bench of the High Court comprising of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice to the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and has asked them to submit a counter-affidavit within 5 days.

The apex court on Friday ...