It was a pathetic scene to witness the people without limbs and arms squatting at a hunger camp demanding the government to restore the physically handicapped pensions here.
The physically challenged under the aegis of National Platform Rights Disable (NPRD) city committee sat on hunger strike on second day on Thursday. About 25 PH people gathered in front of Sub Collector's office to register their resentment over scrapping of their pensions by the government. As many as 50 PH persons participated in the two-day relay hunger strike. Questioning the rationale behind cancellation of their pensions, they demanded the government to revive their cancelled pensions. The NPRD convener Chilla Durga Rao, CP(M) former corporator B. Satya Babu said that the government had cancelled 1.25 lakh pensions across the state. The government's apathy towards the PH cost pensions to 3,000 people in the district and 250 in the city, they said.
