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India is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Legislation that affects people with disabilities in India includes the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, the Mental Health Care Act, 2017, the National Trust Act, 1999, and the Rehabilitation Council of India Act, 1992. People with ...
In 1992, M. Mahadeva along with others started an organization at national level for the promotion and development of sports for the physically challenged and differently-abled people, Physically Handicapped Sports Federation of India. It was registered in 1994 with the registrar of co-operative societies, Bangalore, Karnataka.
In 1999, it established the 'National Resource Centre for Inclusion (NRCI), in Mumbai, to include disabled children from special schools into normal schools. [4] [5] The Spastics Society of India has since changed names and is currently called ADAPT (Able Disable All People Together). [6]
Human resource development [2] in the fields of: . Physiotherapy or Physical Therapy; Occupational Therapy; Prosthetics and orthotics [3]; Rehabilitation by the way of Outpatient Services in the fields of Orthopedics, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Speech Therapy and other rehabilitation services as the society may deem fit to orthopaedically disabled persons ...
The manifesto, also shared with political parties, called for bigger budgetary allocation for PwDs with a 5% reservation in all levels of governance, and comprehensive health insurance. NCPEDP ED, Arman Ali also said as per Election Commission of India, there were 1 crore PwD voter in India, adding it was time these votes mattered. He urged ...
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 is a disability law passed by the Parliament of India to fulfill its obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by India in 2007. The Act replaces the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full ...
Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme; Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute for the Physically Handicapped; Department of Welfare of Differently Abled Persons (Tamil Nadu) Disable Welfare Trust of India; Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University
It was founded in 1988 as Special Olympics India, and from 2001 it became as Special Olympics Bharat. [ 1 ] it is recognized by the government of India as a National Sports Federation for the development of sports opportunity for the people with intellectual disabilities.