Identify the common features central to the public perception of disa…

The correct answer is Option (3) → (A), (C), (D) only

Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. However, there seems to be a mistake in statement (D). The common feature of the public perception is that disability is linked with the disabled individual’s self perception, not with the ‘social security of the disabled’. Read as this feature, statement (D) is correct, as explained below.

(A) It is understood as a biological given. Correct. The public sees disability as a biological given, something in the body, and assumes that every problem a disabled person faces comes from the impairment itself.

(B) The disabled person is seen as a minner. Incorrect. The public perception is that the disabled person is seen as a victim; labels such as bechara (poor thing) heighten this victim status. The statement does not say this.

(C) The very idea of disability suggests that they are in need of help Correct. This is one of the common features of the public perception: the very idea of disability suggests that they are in need of help, as if the disabled could not manage on their own.

(D) Disability is supposed to be linked with the social security of the disabled. Correct as per the NTA answer key. The feature of the public perception is that disability is supposed to be linked with the disabled individual’s self perception, that is, with how the person sees himself or herself. The statement prints ‘social security of the disabled’ in place of ‘self perception’, so as printed it does not describe this feature. Going strictly by the printed statements, only (A) and (C) are features; no option has (A) and (C) alone, and Option (3) is the one that carries both of them.