Disability Discrimination Act
enables complaints to be lodged by or on behalf of a person who believes there has been discrimination on the basis of having a disability or of being an associate of a person with a disability
List of Resources
Assisting people with a disability
Some of the most difficult barriers people with disabilities face are the negative attitudes and perceptions of other people. Sometimes those attitudes are just unconscious misconceptions that result in impolite or thoughtless acts by otherwise well-meaning people.
BSA Motors launches EDGE; Unveils ‘Roamer Able’ electric scooter for the differently abled persons
BSA Motors, a Strategic Business Unit of Tube Investments of India (TII) which is part of the Rs. 15,907 crores Murugappa Group, launched its
next generation electric scooter ‘Edge’ at the 10th Auto Expo 2010 in New Delhi.
Social Security for Disabled People in India
The oldest institution of social security is the family, including joint family. But modernisation resulted in socio-economic changes leading to the erosion of the joint family, thereby disturbing this institution of social security. Then the State stepped in to protect its citizens, and laws were enacted to provide minimal food and shelter to the poor. […]
Jobs for 100,000 disabled people in India
New Delhi, Oct 17: Finance minister P. Chidambaram Friday said he would ensure 100,000 physically challenged people are provided employment by the end of the current financial year. “I am here to ensure that we will employ 100,000 people with disability in the remaining six months of this fiscal,” Chidambaram said at a conference on […]
Indian Parliament: Responding To International Obligations Regarding – The Rights Of Mentally Retarded People
In a most tragic incident at Erwadi, near Ramanathapuram, 25 people including 11 women were charred to death. A devastating fire broke out at 5 am, in the thatched hostel housing them. Out of the 46 hostel inmates, 40 were chained to their beds. They kept screaming for help but no one came to their […]
Reaching Out To Success
Concern India Foundation supports various initiatives for providing opportunities to the underprivileged to better their lives. Concern India Foundation works with development-oriented non-profit organisations that reach out to: Despite and/or Orphaned children Tribals The Disabled The Aged For Info Clickhere, http://www.concernindia.org
Human rights of persons with disabilities
Persons with disabilities are entitled to exercise their civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights on an equal basis with others. Disability “summarizes a great number of different functional limitations occurring in any population in any country of the world.
List of Special Employment Exchanges for Differently Abled
The Regional Employment Officer Special Employment Exchange for Physically Handicapped
Country Profile on Disability In INDIA
Basic Profile, Basic Indicators ,Indicators on Disability