Jomi John Joseph
@jomeyonwheels
State Tax Officer | Volunteer -All Kerala Wheelchair Rights Federation - team of Disability Rights Activists & The Spinal Foundation | RTs are not endorsements
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23-09-2009 02:22:17
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Deeply disturbed by Mr Amitabh Kant's suggestion to scrap Disability quotas due to a few abusers. We need stringent scrutiny and punishment for those who misuse these benefits, not closing ranks on genuinely disabled
Scary to read tweets by sitting IAS officers like Smita Sabharwal asking for disability quotas in IAS to be scrapped. Wasn’t the 2014 UPSC Rank 1 disabled? Wasn’t Stephen Hawking, the world’s top astrophysicist disabled? We need action against wrongdoers, not scrapping of
A thread on Union Budget 2025 and what it means for Persons with Disabilities. The Disappointment: For a population that makes up 7-8% of India, the budget for disability remains a mere 0.025%—a glaring oversight. The Quantum Hub Nipman Foundation
1/5 A rather important thread that i hope will be read in our country’s journalism schools: The last few days have offered an object lesson in how the news is “made“. The Indian Express wanted to draw attention to their new Malayalam podcast, so they did two somewhat shameless