Karnataka Government Schemes for persons with Disabilities – This center provides information to persons with disabilities about the facilities and the schemes available under the State and the Central Govt. The institutions providing special education. Vocational training and also information about procuring quality aids and appliances.
Karnataka State Govt. extend the financial assistance to NGOs to establish and implement Old Age Homes to take care of the elderly persons providing all the basic amenities including Health care protection to life etc.,
Person with Disability who is economical conditions are poor and unable to maintain himself with food clothing and shelter and could not meet other basic needs is paid monthly maintenance allowance of Rs.400 per month Around 4.00 lakhs persons with disabilities are available this benefit and Annual budgetary burden on the exchequer is around Rs.200 crores.
Aids and Appliances – Eligibility Criteria: 1. Must be resident of Karnataka for the last 10 years and should be certified by the Tahasildar. 2. Annual Income limit is Rs.24000 for urban areas and Rs.11500 for rural areas inhabitants.
The Karnataka Government has provided 3% reservation in A and B Post and 5% reservation in C and ‘D’ category of posts in all Government recruitments. The Karnataka Government has also identified different kinds of jobs, which can be suitable for persons with disability.
Scholarship for Physically challenged/Differently-abled Scholarship with full tuition fee waivered is offered to selected students who are physically challenged /differently abled.
The Mahindra Group Wednesday launched India’s biggest innovation prize- the ‘Rise Prize’ which offers USD1 million to drive globally relevant, disruptive innovations while helping build a culture of innovation in India. It will start with two primary challenges, the Mobility Challenge, which invites solutions for driverless cars in India, while the second Solar Challenge aims to make solar energy products more accessible to the population at large.
The Government of Karnataka has established 8 Res. Special Schools for children with visual or hearing impairment. Out of 8 Res. Special Schools 4 schools are for children with visually impaired and 4 schools are for children with hearing impairment.
Reservation for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) for recruitment from open market – List of posts identified suitable for them- regarding.
This plan supports the implementation of the CRPD, in particular Articles 12 (Legal capacity), 19 (Living independently and being included in the community), 20 (Personal mobility), 25 (Health), 26 (Habilitation and rehabilitation), 28 (Adequate standard of living and social protection), 31 (Statistics and data collection) and 32 (International cooperation).