"Not only the government sponsored rehabilitation agencies failed in providing medication b

Sadaket Malik
Despite the repeated assurances of total rehabilitation of a Deaf and Dumb village in Bhale
A remote village in Bhalessa, Doda seems reverberation with the sounds of silence and gover
Fed up with the of the successive governments as well as of the rehabilitation organization
Jan Mohammad and Ali Mohammad, who completed their training in June this year, have opened
In the school, both instructors imparted special education to the deaf and dumb but the exp
The Rehabilitation Council of India itself is acting as a silent spectator on the Total reh
The children continue to suffer and add three or more children to the exiting numbers every
The village first reported 36 deaf and dumb cases in 1986, and two decades later, the villa
On an average, three children are born with such disability every year in this village. The
The ever increasing number of deaf and dumb has reached to 92 as some more cases were detec
"We hope that they will bring some changes," Jan Mohammed a local villager said. He said: "
Though some efforts were taken by the government to ascertain cause of this congenital defe
Earlier, The Health Department had conducted a survey through which it found 90 such cases
However, the youth trained by the Hyderabad institute are doing a commendable job at their
The government neither has any remorse nor any plans up its sleeves to cure the village of
"Despite repeatedly raising the issue in the lower House, none from the government has visi
Not only the government sponsored so called rehabilitation agencies failed in providing med
What is needed is special schooling through the special education programme initiated by th
(Sadaket Malik is Columnist based in Bhalessa at Jammu and can be contacted at sadaketjammu
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