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Volume 5 Issue 2 - January 15, 2007
Madras High Court directs states to set deadline for implementing Disability Act
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Madras High Court Chief Justice A. P. Shah urged State Governments to formulate
plans and set deadlines to implement the Persons with Disabilities (Equal
Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995.
The major deficiency in the Act was the absence of any time limit, he told the State Conference of the Tamilnadu Association for the Welfare of the Physically Handicapped adding that the States must provide temporary relief until the final measures were taken.
Shah stressed that the Commissioners appointed under the Act were never from the disability sector. "They invariably hold ostensible posting elsewhere and pay attention to their statutory duties under the Act in a cursory fashion."
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