From primary school teachers to retired professors, the pandemic added to their daily struggles
This year has been about the new normal and working from home for many, but for some persons with disabilities (PwD), things haven’t changed much in 2020.
From a primary school teacher asked to come to the school every day to a retired professor asked to leave or pay market rent for the university accommodation he was planning to vacate before the lockdown was announced — both wheelchair users — the COVID-19 pandemic added to their daily struggles.
Speaking to The Hindu on the eve of the International Day for PwD on Thursday, Indu, a primary teacher with the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, said she had requested an exemption from attending school in July, but only received a reply in November that the civic body had no order or instruction to allow it. This, despite a memo for Central government employees by the Department of Personnel and Training saying “PwD and pregnant…
