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Our attention is drawn to 7th Edition of "Bedside Clinics in Medicine" by the learned Advocate appearing for the Steel Authority of India, which defines Hemiplegia and Hemiparesis. The 'plegia' has been defined to mean complete or near complete paralysis and 'paresis' means weakness or partial paralysis. The Hemiplegia, according to the said author, is a paralysis of one half of the body (specially of face, arm and legs) and it is a facio- brachiocrural paralysis. The trunk is exempted due to bilateral innervation. The Hemiparesis has been defined as weakness of one half of the body (specially of face, arm and leg).

One has to understand the meaning of 'plegia' and 'hemiparesis' as given in the said Book which imbibe within itself not only the complete paralysis but nearly complete paralysis as well as weakness or the partial paralysis. The scheme is benevolent and welfare in order to tide over the family, who suffered the sudden financial crisis because of untimely incapacitation or death of the sole bread earner. 

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