 ఇర్ర్నఆకోండ్ల౑లుండికెదిందార్చృర్. పోద్టికో. పోదికోకోయాని పోదికోండికోటర్కెదికోకోటుకోన్త్. it is a state subject to look after the disabled welfare, it is the state subject, see the state government has to come forward. as well as, unfortunately, they are saying that, we are with the financial crunch, but if they have the financial crunch, it is the responsibility they have the state to struggle with their center government allocations to the state and to safeguard the disabled, but they are not doing. We already approached the state government through our memorandums and petitions to the chief minister, the social welfare minister, the authorities in connection with the different liable, the different liable welfare commissioner. We have received nothing from the, we have not received any response from the authorities so that we already conduct small, small struggles even during this lockdown to demand atleast 5000 from the state to provide disabled for the lockdown losses. They have incurred in the, during the COVID-19 lockdown period for the last 200 months. Why this demand arise for the disabled in the state and the country is, is known one. As per the 2016 Rights of Persons with the Disability Act, the act is mandating the states to safeguard the rights of the disabled even during the disaster and calamity. Now COVID-19 is announced by the government of India and the state government. It is a natural disaster. It is a disaster disease. Now as per the act, it is the duty of the government to safeguarding and protecting the disabled for their livelihood and for their losses during this lockdown. But the government has nothing done for the last two and a half months for their livelihood, for their medicine, for their extra expenditure involving for the disabled. See India has signed and ratified UN Convention for the Rights of Disabled, UNCRPD in 2007 and it has been ratified by the Union Ministry. See as per the UNCRPD, it is also a duty of the Indian government to protect the disabled and it is the responsibility of the government. They have to report the UN what kind of measures they have taken during this calamity, during this disaster for the disabled. But the Union government announced only 1000, they have announced only 1000 rupees for disabled for this lockdown period. It means the announcement for 1000 rupees for the disabled, it is not going to all disabled to the country. It is only a section of the disabled, only a miniscule section of the disabled are getting this kind of 1000 rupees now. In Tamil Nadu, as far as our information we have received so far, only 15 to 20,000 disabled, they have received only 500 rupees as for the loss, what they have incurred in the lockdown. So the two end of months, for the government's unprepared and unallowing the lockdown, most of the household of the disabled actually they are starving, actually they are striving to improve their life and they can't able to come forward with the grips and losses they have already got into that. Now in the state and the country over 90% of the people are depending upon only the unorganized employment. To compare with the disabled employment, it goes beyond 95 to 97%. Most of the disabled are depending only unorganized employment. During this lockdown period, they lost these kinds of unorganized work and they are really striving for their livelihood and they can't able to purchase their emergency medicines and equipments what they need. For example, as per the 2016 RPWD Act, there are 21 kinds of disabilities categorized in the act. Some disabilities like intellectual disability, mental disability, some disability like neurological disability. For the sake of neurological disarmament becoming disabled. And some people with disabilities with spinal injuries, people with head injuries, there are people, various kinds of disabled are living in the country. They have to purchase the emergency medicine at least now. The spinal injured persons, they can't able to move, they can't able to get their things at a time what they expecting. See, most of the persons are, they have to use diapers, they have to use medicines. Even while sleeping, they have to protect themselves, himself or herself through not biting from the ants and the rats. They have to, they need anti insect powders, etc. See, we are receiving complaints from the disabled. Even they can't able to purchase this kind of little thing also because of inability of getting money, etc. They don't have any penny with them. Now, it is the duty of the government at least to provide medicines. Moreover, what the World Health Organization who says, people have to eat good food and vegetables, fruits, etc. To prevent from the COVID-19 spread and virus. Now, the disabled, they can't able to purchase their medicine at all. Then how can they purchase good kind of food articles and foods, etc. We don't know. Most of the people living in the rural areas, villages, they can't able to eat their own food at least three times with nutritious thing, nutritious content. They are eating only the government providing the ration shop rise and they are taking only the whatever they are getting now. They have to protect themselves. Now, we are in a position to demand the government at least in the lockdown period to take into consideration what is happening for the last two and a half months.