Persons With Disabilities Need Recognition

Persons with disabilities (PWDs) are part of society. So they are not outcastes. That is why they should be treated on a par with other members of society. Every country has PWDs. Disabilities can be classified into different categories: physical disability, visual impairment, hearing impairment, hearing and visual impairment, speech impairment, mental disability (intellectual disability, mental illness, psychosocial disorder and autism) and multiple disabilities. According to the 2021 Census of Nepal, 2.2 per cent of the total population has some form of disability. This means around 648,000 people have some form of disability.