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This aspiring artist wants to paint with hands, but there’s a glitch – government has given aid for just one arm.

Ritik’s is a story well known in Old Delhi’s bustling Sadar Bazar. The class 12 student, living in a single-room house in the locality, was born with a congenital deficiency. Neither of his arms are fully formed as he had a rare case of bilateral elbow disarticulation. In spite of being differentially abled, he refused to give up on his hobby of painting. This, he would do with his feet.

All this is set to change as on June 23, Ritik, 17, became the first student in the country to get a free electrically-powered prosthetic limb under provisions of the Right of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. It was the culmination of a nearly year-long battle for the aid, one which saw the family approach the courts.





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