Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Oct 30: High Court has sought a list of words from the concerned stakeholders which do not align with the dignity of persons with disabilities.
The directions has been passed in a PIL by the Division Bench headed by Chief Justice N Kotiswar Singh asking therein all the parties involved in the matter to submit a list of words that do not align with the dignity of individuals with disabilities.
The bench also directed the Registry to prepare a copy of the paper book and provide the same to the Advocate General along with various orders passed by it. “All the parties involved shall compile and submit a list of words that do not align with the dignity of individuals with disabilities”, read the order.
Previously the court had ordered that the specially-abled persons be treated properly by the language recognized internationally. “We also hope and trust that the society as a whole shall recognize their rights as guaranteed under the Constitution.”
The specially able persons, the court added, be treated properly by the language recognized internationally. “We also direct the respondents to ensure that the facilities …are provided/developed, if not, already existing,” the court had said.
The court expected that the officials shall ensure full respect and honour to all citizens in terms of their personality without letting them suffer any impression that the society and State sees and address the “physically and mentally challenged persons as liabilities carrying personalities and, as such, sensitivity has to be in full operation.
The concern of the petitioner-Badr-u-Duja, court said is that the respondents (Centre and J&K Government) who use the language guidelines already introduced universally and the list of words and their alternate words enumerated, mentioned, illustrated so that internal and external communications must be respectful physically as well as mentally.
It is mentioned that across the world, respectful language, disability communication, disability etiquette have been prescribed, mentioned and used during communications, pleadings, judicial orders, academic writings, official work, educational textbooks, pamphlets, across public and private offices.
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