{"id":28484,"date":"2018-10-24T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28484"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:08:26","slug":"sc-seeks-plan-to-eradicate-leprosy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-seeks-plan-to-eradicate-leprosy\/","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks plan to eradicate leprosy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/sc-seeks-plan-to-eradicate-leprosy\/article24344940.ece'\">SC seeks plan to eradicate leprosy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the Supreme Court gave directions to the government for eradicating leprosy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The apex court gave the following directions to the government :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chief Justice says it the duty of the state to erase the stigma against leprosy.<\/li>\n<li>The government need to constitute a separate wing to create public awareness that leprosy is curable and not contagious.<\/li>\n<li>The court said the \u201cprimary duty of the state to erase the stigma against those suffering from leprosy and nudge them back into the mainstream.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The court ordered All India Ratio and Doordarshan to air programmes nationally as well as regionally in States.<\/li>\n<li>Afflicted persons could not be exposed to stigma which denuded them of basic human dignity.<\/li>\n<li>Persons suffering from leprosy deserved the empathy from authorities as well as the society at large.<\/li>\n<li>The court said that deserved to be treated with equality.<\/li>\n<li>Previously, the court had asked the Centre and the States to remove references to leprosy as a disability from statute books because written laws amounted to \u201cstatutory stigma\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. The Centre is taking steps to eradicate leprosy. So far following steps has been taken :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The court directed the government to spread the awareness campaign up to the \u2018gram panchayat\u2019 level. It would help in eradicating the disease and ending discrimination against sufferers.<\/li>\n<li>Steps were being taken to repeal legal provisions in laws which discriminated against leprosy patients.<\/li>\n<li>The government is taking steps to delete the provisions from number of enactments which cast stigma on the persons.<\/li>\n<li>The court referred to the 256th Law Commission\u2019s report and said the recommendation on repealing discriminatory legal provisions had not been acted upon by the Centre and States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SC seeks plan to eradicate leprosy News: Recently, the Supreme Court gave directions to the government for eradicating leprosy. Important facts: 2. The apex court gave the following directions to the government : Chief Justice says it the duty of the state to erase the stigma against leprosy. The government need to constitute a separate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-seeks-plan-to-eradicate-leprosy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC seeks plan to eradicate leprosy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704906195},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}