‘Hold camps for ID cards to diff-abled’
The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu government to conduct an extensive publicity campaign to make the physically-challenged aware of the need to obtain National Identity Card for differently-abled to avail various government benefits.
Madurai
It should also conduct special camps across the state to issue the cards after medical examination of the applicants. A division bench comprising Justices S Manikumar and C T Selvam issued the direction on a writ petition filed by C Kathiravan who had accused the Virudhunagar District Collector and Differently Abled Welfare Officer of not issuing the ID Card to him though he made a specific representation.
A single Judge of the HC Bench had referred the case to the division bench after finding that it involved public interest.
The division bench while disposing of the petition, said though the Social Welfare Department had claimed to have issued ID Cards to 11,19,978 people in the State so far, after their disability was assessed to be more than 40 per cent in the medical examination, it had not given district-wise statistics. Similarly, no specific details were furnished with respect to awareness programmes conducted in the rural parts of the State, the judges said.
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