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Please, hear us! - Times Of India
Hundreds of deaf women complained that the Centre's decision to limit short messaging services ( SMS) has hit them badly as it was a means to communicate with their friends.
They were attending the Deaf Women's Convention, organized by the Kozhikode District Association of the Deaf as part of its silver jubilee celebration on Sunday.
Even though the government increased the number of messages, which could be sent in a day to 200 following protests, the participants felt that it was not enough. Earlier inaugurating the convention, Arti Umrotkar, a national deaf empowerment leader, said the condition of deaf women in Kerala is bad compared to other states.
She said the deaf people are being denied the chance to interact due inadequate methods of communication and the government should appoint interpreters in important offices, hospitals, police stations to make communication easy for them.
Advocate Rathnakumar Mallissery, president, Kozhikode District Association of the Deaf, said as per the 2001 census there were more than eight lakh physically handicapped people in the state and now it has increased to over 25 lakh. It is alarming as deaf people constitute 30 to 40 per cent of this number. The government should provide facilities in the hospital for their treatment. She also added if the treatment is started within three to four months after the birth of the baby, 90 per cent of the problem can be cured.
Hundreds of deaf women complained that the Centre's decision to limit short messaging services ( SMS) has hit them badly as it was a means to communicate with their friends.
They were attending the Deaf Women's Convention, organized by the Kozhikode District Association of the Deaf as part of its silver jubilee celebration on Sunday.
Even though the government increased the number of messages, which could be sent in a day to 200 following protests, the participants felt that it was not enough. Earlier inaugurating the convention, Arti Umrotkar, a national deaf empowerment leader, said the condition of deaf women in Kerala is bad compared to other states.
She said the deaf people are being denied the chance to interact due inadequate methods of communication and the government should appoint interpreters in important offices, hospitals, police stations to make communication easy for them.
Advocate Rathnakumar Mallissery, president, Kozhikode District Association of the Deaf, said as per the 2001 census there were more than eight lakh physically handicapped people in the state and now it has increased to over 25 lakh. It is alarming as deaf people constitute 30 to 40 per cent of this number. The government should provide facilities in the hospital for their treatment. She also added if the treatment is started within three to four months after the birth of the baby, 90 per cent of the problem can be cured.