Why can’t the DoPT junk the word — physically handicapped?

ALMOST six months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed people to call differently abled people as Divyaang (of godly parts) instead of Viklaang (handicapped) in his radio programme called Mann Ki Baat, most union government departments have not made any attempt to move towards the direction. Here is a DoPT office memorandum dated May 26, 2016. Subject?…

BoI appeals govt to change the nomenclature of PH (Physically Handicapped) Policy; join us in our campaign

ON THURSDAY, 2007 batch Assam cadre IAS Rajesh Singh was transferred from Assam-Meghalaya cadre to Jharkhand cadre on the basis of what’s called PH (Physically Handicapped) Policy. As BoI posted the news in social media sites, a number of prompt reactions poured in. Why “Physically Handicapped”? Why not “Physically Challenged”? Or why should not it be called a policy for Differently Abled? According to the Oxford dictionary, the usage of "differently abled" was first proposed in…