Over 100 visually impaired people arrested for their participation to a protest!

Police on Sunday arrested more than 100 visually impaired people from a demonstration in the capital.

Dozens of the demonstrators were injured, two seriously, when the police used force to break up the demonstrations staged demanding employment at Padmodaya Mode, Kathmandu this afternoon.

The group was demanding that the government provide jobs to some 500 visually-impaired persons and provide ‘unemployment allowance’ of Rs.2000 per month to others.

Bhakta Gautam and Prativa Lama, who were seriously injured in the police baton charge, were rushed to the hospital.

Meanwhile, the Nepal Human Rights Commission today criticized the government for its intervention in the peaceful rally organized by the visually impaired people.

Police said they were forced to intervene in the rally because the demonstrators attempted to enter in the probated area.

As, the government is not responding to the demands for the provision of their employment for the visually impaired people at the policy level, they have begun a weeklong protest programmes.
The protestors are also planning to take to the streets on Monday at Bhrikuti Mandap in Kathmandu.