Deaf-Blind Catagorised as Multiple - Disability. Why?

Hello Disability Rights Activists,
I trust you are safe and doing well. I would like to share an important update with you. 
My younger brother, Akhtar Dhale who is also deaf-blind like me, is living in Pune. He is self-employed and is working from home selling candles and cloth bags with very minimal income. He is with our parents who are too old.  His wife who is deaf is a house wife.
Last Wednesday Akhtar went to Sasoon Eye Hospital for renewing his disability certificate for his disability pension. I advised him to take only Blind certificate instead of Deaf certificate as well. My brother's wife who is deaf also went along. The doctor assumed that both were deaf  and gave him the certificate for deafness. But my brother thought that it was for 100% Blindness. 
When he submitted the photocopies of the certificate to the department at Pune Municipal Corporation, they were not approved. My brother could not check by reading the certificate. My cousin brother later told him that it was not a blind certificate.   
Today Akhtar went again to hospital and asked for deaf-blind certificate to be given. The clerk there could not understand the term deaf-blind. He asked Akthar to go for ear and eye check up. After waiting in the long queue, the checkup was done,  but the doctor  gave the certificate as Multiple  Disability. 

We know Deaf-blindness is not a separate category, but force-fitted into Multiple Disability(MD) category under RPWD  Act 2016. However, there is no MD category for railway/ bus ticket concession or for pension. The concession and pension is there for only Deaf' Blind, MR and other disabilities not deafblind category. We feel this discrepancy must be corrected and we should be given a separate 'Deaf-Blind' category and certificate accordingly, under RPwD Act 2016 and the same  to be approved by the Health ministry.
 I request on behalf of SEDB India that all deaf-blind/deaf-low vision members of this society to come and support our cause.

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