Demanding an enhanced monthly assistance of Rs. 1,500 to those with serious physical impairment and Rs. 1,000 for all differently abled persons, the physically challenged staged a demonstration at the Collectorate here on Tuesday.
The protestors said the State government should give the monthly assistance of Rs. 1,000 to every physically challenged person without any condition, and the enhanced assistance to seriously impaired persons like visually and mentally challenged persons and the hearing impaired.
The national identity card meant for the physically challenged should be issued at the government hospitals in Tenkasi, Sankarankovil, Ambasamudram, Cheranmahadevi and Valliyoor. Free bus passes and houses should be given to the physically challenged, they demanded.
