India was a signatory to United Nations Convention Report of the Persons with Disability (UNCRPD) in 2007. It provides persons with disability the same rights that every normal person enjoys. Disability of any nature is painful to the concerned individual and family. Disability can be due to a variety of reasons including psychiatric disorders. When the disability is related to psychiatric disorder, the burden is more.
Governments of various countries extend various benefits to mitigate suffering to some extent by way of reservations, pensions, education, employment, creation of facilities for differentially abled (like ramps), etc. Till a long time back, these benefits were not extended to disabilities caused by psychiatric disorders. The concessions extended to intellectually challenged persons (earlier called mentally retarded) were there from the beginning of the schemes. This is…
