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National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) is India's only cross-disability, non-profit organization, working as an interface between the government, industry, international agencies, and the voluntary sector towards empowerment of persons with disabilities. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 seeks ...
National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD) is an Indian government agency providing services to persons with multiple disabilities. [1] It was established by Government of India under the aegis of the Department of Disability Affairs within the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment at Chennai .
Contribution-based pension system. For government employees in 2004 and the general public in 2009. Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme: CS MoSJE: 2003: Social Justice: Original form was the 1999 scheme to Promote Voluntary Action for Persons with Disabilities, with the aim of implementing Persons With Disabilities Act, 1995.
In 2004, the organization collaborated with United States–based National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research for a workshop on autism. [4] During the same time of year, the organization began offering a master's degree program in disability rehabilitation—said to be one of its kind. [ 5 ]
Department of Higher Education (India) Ministry of Science and Technology (India) List of autonomous higher education institutes in India; List of institutions of higher education in India; List of Institutes of National Importance; List of central universities in India; List of deemed universities in India; List of private universities in India
The Act was amended by Parliament in 2000 to make it more broad-based. The mandate given to RCI is to regulate and monitor services given to persons with disability, to standardise syllabi and to maintain a Central Rehabilitation Register of all qualified professionals and personnel working in the field of Rehabilitation and Special Education.
India enacted the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunity, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act in 1995 to provide recognition to the rights and special needs of disabled people in the country. [2] It also provided for reservations for persons with disabilities in government jobs and higher educational institutions. [12]
In 1993, the Government of Tamil Nadu established a separate directorate for the rehabilitation of the differently abled persons from the social department and enacted a policy in 1994. In 1995, it was upgraded as the office of the state commissioner for the differently abled with a state commissioner appointed since 1999.