Disability : Towards Inclusive India
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Disability perspectives: 1. Disability, poverty and sustainable development: a new outlook/Pankaj Sreshakar. 2. Definitional and enumeration inconsistencies: a case for review differently abled population/Bhupinder Zutshi. 3. Strategies for including the excluded: the differently abled/Asha J.V. 4. Disability and skill development in India/Rakesh Raman Jha. II. Developmental issues: 5. Adjustment problems of disabled children and their educational opportunities/Rashmi Sharma and Vandana Bhardawaj. 6. Landmines: the deadliest face of terror, disability and the United Nations/Vivek Saini. 7. Protecting rights of disabled: an educational intervention/Jayadeba Sahoo. III. Disability and human rights: 8. Disabled in India: imperatives for rethinking legal and policy interventions/Alok Kumar Gupta and Geetanjali Sharma. 9. Disabilities and human rights of army personnel/Anil Bhat. 10. Disability and judiciary/P. Saibabu and C. Ravi Sankar. 11. Parliament vis-a-vis social justice to disabled persons/S. Prabhakar. IV. Gendered dimension: 12. Disability, poverty and sustainable development: a gendered perspective/Amit Rahul and Rashmi Sinha. 13. Disabled women in search of their identity: Himachal in focus/Ruchi Ramesh. 14. Disability and gender: Indian context/Sudhir Kumar Singh. Bibliography. Index.
Disability has emerged as an utmost concern of emerging India. The number of this most disadvantaged group is over 100 million and they have been under the twin discrimination from the state and society. Bringing the disabled into the mainstreaming process of development will ensure sustainable development and inclusive growth of the country. Their full proof empowerment is the key to the philosophy of inclusion and basic lever of fundamental human rights. Being a democratic country is is our utmost responsibility to provide them all required facilities according to the Kautilayan notion of good governance. The book deals with those pertinent issues in a comprehensive manner and come out with diverse level of policy suggestions. (jacket)
Disability has emerged as an utmost concern of emerging India. The number of this most disadvantaged group is over 100 million and they have been under the twin discrimination from the state and society. Bringing the disabled into the mainstreaming process of development will ensure sustainable development and inclusive growth of the country. Their full proof empowerment is the key to the philosophy of inclusion and basic lever of fundamental human rights. Being a democratic country is is our utmost responsibility to provide them all required facilities according to the Kautilayan notion of good governance. The book deals with those pertinent issues in a comprehensive manner and come out with diverse level of policy suggestions. (jacket)
