Senthil Kumar
Rangat, Mar 12: The Health department has made their work easier of issuing identity card to differently-abled person by giving the power to Medical Officer of concerned area to fix the disability percentage of the person.
But it has created a lot of headache to the differently-abled person as they have to first visit the Medical Officer for accruing the disability percentage then they have to move to Directorate of Social Welfare, Port Blair and the Directorate of Social Welfare directs them to go the Medical Superintendent, DHS Port Blair, after signature of the M.S. they have to submit the document to the DoS.W. After completing all the formalities they have to come back to their home and again after 15 or 20 days they have to go back to Directorate of Social Welfare, Port Blair to get the identity card.
Differently-abled Islanders now urge the Administration to make the process easier so that the needy people don’t have to make trip to Port Blair again and again. After preparation of Identity Card they may hand it over to the area CDPO for distribution.
