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In December 2010, Chib wrote her first book and autobiography One Little Finger published by Sage Publishing. [5] The book was critically acclaimed. In 2015, she wrote a chapter titled I Feel Normal Inside. Outside, My Body Isn't! in the anthology Disability, Gender and the Trajectories of Power edited by Asha Hans and published by Sage ...
The number of people with disabilities in India was stated as 21 million in the 2001 Census of India. [2] In the 2011 census, the figure rose by 22.4% to 26.8 million. [3] According to the 2011 census, 20.3% of people with disabilities in India have movement disabilities, 18.9% have hearing impairments, and 18.8% have visual impairments.
She received the Role Model Award from the Office of the Disability Commissioner, Government of West Bengal. She has been felicitated by the Telegraph, Friends FM and other groups. She is the main protagonist of landmark judgment (Jeeja Ghosh & anr. Vs SpiceJet & ors.) of the Supreme Court of India for equal rights of persons with disabilities.
According to the 2011 Census of India, 2.21 per cent of the population or approximately 26.8 million Indians have a disability.The target is to make at least fifty percent government buildings accessible to disabled people under the campaign in each of the state capital and central capital till end of May 2018 and make 25 per cent of the public transport vehicles under government as disabled ...
Various publications across the world have written more than 100 articles on her work. [5] [12] Her first national recognition came in 1994 when she won the National Youth Award from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India. She won the Padma Shri on 25 January 2022, on the eve of the 73rd Republic Day of India.
Ghai who is the author of (Dis)embodied Form, writes about the gendered politics of disability and its impact on feminist theory. [9] Her book (Dis)embodied form is the first of its kind to address the experiences of being a disabled Indian woman and shows us the ways in which these experiences challenge both disability and feminism in India. [9]
It may be noted that India uses a rating system to evaluate a person's degree of disability. As per the system, Ali's degree of disability is 80%. The higher the disability, more difficult it becomes to get insurance. [9] In 2023, NCPEDP in collaboration with Bajaj Finserv launched a Scholarship programme for students with disabilities. The ...
Sudha Menon is an author, actor, motivational speaker and founder of writing workshop series, Get Writing and Writing With Women. She is the author of six non-fiction books: 'Recipes For Life', Feisty at Fifty, Legacy: Letters to their daughters from eminent Indian men and women, Gifted: inspirational stories of people with disabilities, and Devi, Diva or She-Devil: The Smart Career woman's ...