Exclusion of Disabled Persons and Inclusion of Them through Social Security System of Economic Reform

Abstract

The Constitution of India has provided uniform rights to its citizens irrespective of their race, religion, caste, creed, gender, place of birth or whether the person is healthy, normal or disabled is of no consequence. The urgent need to include the disabled person in the Constitution was recognised. It has only been in the last few decades that some work has been done for them. The person with disability had to depend on the charity of society since disability was viewed as a curse of God. In the past, the joint family used to provide care and emotional support to the disabled member of the family but in today's lifestyle, families are often unable to bear the burden of the person with disability. So the number of innovative programmes are directed for fulfilling decided objectives for the welfare of the disabled people. For this, the new economic policy had enhanced the budget for the disabled person to be integral part of the society. This attempt of government is for placing disabled person in the family with some self-respect. But the social security provided to disabled along with the family benefit is unknown to most of them. So, the facility of early detection of disability should be made available in the developing countries. The empowerment of person with disability through education, including training and employment, securing their rights and special care is needed to be introduced. The appropriate actions will be encouraging the disabled persons to fully contribute in all spheres of social life like socio-cultural, economic, political and also sports activities like that of the normal persons, should be implemented.