S.Vimala, J.

I woke up from the surgery minus my left and right leg(s)

With searing pain below my hip as if a powder keg

Exploded deep within my thigh, leaving nothing there

But tissues sewn together, which was more that I could bear...

The pain, so knife-like, so intense has melted with the snow

And now as spring awakens in my chair I slowly go

To the window of my bedroom and the windows of my mind

Wondering if I will be forever so confined ....

- Richard Lackman.

1.1 The above said poetics reveal the unbearable pain every amputee has to undergo. Not only the physical pain, but also the mental pain for having become “forever confined” - this fact and thought would give perennial daunting and hunting pain in the mind. Even without any poetic prop, anybody can easily empathize with the cause of the amputees.

1.2. Here, the appellant/claimant is left with 10 centimeters leg below right knee and 12 centimeters leg below left knee has spoken out her problem in the language known to her and which reads as under :

1. Searing pain made the sufferings everlasting.

2. Financial expenses we