bled and Caregivers association pressed for improving their livelihood and staged a protest on the Collectorate premises in Erode on Monday.
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Urging the Central and State governments to take steps to improve their livelihood as suggested by the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled (NPRD), members of the Tamil Nadu Association for the Rights of All Types of Differently Abled and Caregivers (TARATDAC) staged a protest at the Erode Collectorate on Monday.
They said the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is observed across the world on December 3, and urged the Centre to fulfil their demands, including increase in the Central government’s share of monthly assistance to ₹5,000, enhancing the assistance amount whenever the dearness allowance for Central government employees is raised, enacting a law mandating such assistance, increasing the number of job days under MGNREGS from 100 to 200, providing employment opportunities for differently abled persons in urban areas, and supplying 35 kg of rice every month to each family of differently abled persons.
Their demands to the State government included raising the monthly assistance to a minimum of ₹6,000 as provided in Andhra Pradesh, withdrawing the government order that denies them employment, and conducting State-level grievance meetings headed by the Revenue Administrative Commissioner.
Published – December 01, 2025 06:53 pm IST
