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Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 is a legislation, initiated by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India [1] to provide more effective provision for maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens. It makes it a legal obligation for children and heirs to provide maintenance to senior ...
The Edhi Foundation provides a number of services, emergency and non-emergency, to the general public. In addition to emergency medical services and private ambulance services, the organization also renders aid to women and children in need, assists with missing persons cases, and helps in covering burial and graveyard costs of unclaimed and unidentified bodies during times of disaster and ...
Counsellors will conduct counselling to improve the mental health of the detainees and prisoners. According to the health and family welfare minister, later this project will also be implemented in other jails. [55] [56] In October 2022, Punjab became the first state in India to allow conjugal visits to prisoners. According to a senior official ...
Parents are looking to support their disabled children past their own ability to do so. A special needs trust might be the answer. ... “In a lot of ways, the trust is an alter ego for the parent ...
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Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal focuses on supporting widows, orphans, the disabled, students, and the elderly, providing financial aid such as Rs 25,000 per household with more than one disabled person. [1] It is also the sponsor of Benazir Income Support Programme. It also provides money to poor and deserving students of almost all universities of Pakistan.
Another law governing disability affairs in India is the National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999, or simply National Trust Act. [16]
The Trust is constructing a new facility to accommodate 1000 children and has plans to set up a hospital for corrective surgeries for disabilities. It also has a scheme to guide physically disabled people from the villages for availing loans, from ₹ 150,000 to ₹ 500,000 for setting up own businesses from the Handicapped Finance and ...