A Brief Review of Disability Rights and Welfare in Sri Lanka

Differently-abled people are one group that often gets into trouble due to the less attention from society. Providing equal opportunities for all people is a highly considered fact worldwide; to establish equity and equality in society, all countries urge to care about people who have become marginalised from the mainstream for many reasons. It is essential to provide facilities focusing on disabilities to enhance well-being to maintain equity and equality. Concerning this prime objective, as a welfare State of Sri Lanka has a great responsibility to cater to basic needs to meet of disable people. The State and Non-State sectors also provide many facilities to establish universal equity. Therefore, disabled people should be given more welfare programmes to uplift their living conditions to protect social security. Also, there should be special attention to empower those who have become different able concerning those who are the part of society to obtain their services to the development of society. The Sri Lankan government has introduced many attractive approaches to enable people’s potentiality. It is important to identify such programmes that have been influenced on beneficiaries to identify what extent the government has made attempts to rescue from the marginalityin society. Accordingly, this paper has discussed the condition of Disabilities in Sri Lanka. This paper focuses on examining the current status of welfare programs that have been executed to enhance the living conditions of disabled people in Sri Lanka.