The significance of data in influencing policy constructs and thereon, decisions, is noncontestable. The country takes periodic stock of various parameters just to inform welfare policies better. In context, the recent decision of the Union government _______1______ the disability-specific question from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-6 seems _____2________and sends out wrong signals. After years of campaigning for the same, activists rejoiced when the government added one question on disability in the NFHS-5, and were hopeful that this would be built upon in subsequent versions of the nation-wide survey. The deletion, and ______3_____ to map the _______4________that will help understand their lives and needs better, leaves the question: is the government serious about its commitment to the disabled in the country, who number, as per the 2011 Census, about 2.68 crore? The Ministry of Health and Family responded that questions about disability were already asked as part of the Sample Registration Survey (SRS) 76th round, _______5________ between July and December 2018, and that any specific information can be tabulated from the raw data, which is also available in the public domain.