Ranchi: Thirty-two-year-old Ormanjhi village resident Rajesh Kumar, who has a disabled leg, is finding it difficult to make his ends meet owing to a lack of job and non-disbursal of the government disability pension last few months. His wife, who worked as a maid, has also lost her job making it difficult for them to sustain their family of four.
Kumar is not alone. Thousands of disabled persons like him are facing several financial crises during the lockdown in the state after the government stopped their monthly pension of Rs. 1,000 for the past several months.
To mitigate the crisis soon, the Jharkhand Viklang Manch (JVM), an umbrella group for disabled people, headquartered in Jamshedpur, had written a letter to chief minister Hemant Soren appealing him to release the monthly pensions. The government has assured to release the pension soon.