The All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) here will continue to issue hearing disability certificates in prescribed formats following a direction from the office of the Director General of Health Services, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The government has announced changes in the issuance of disability certificates. An official release said for hearing and visually impaired persons it would be issued on Mondays; for those Locomotor handicapped/cerebral palsy/leprosy cured it would be on Tuesdays and for mental retardation, multiple disability, autism and mentally ill persons it would be on Friday.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section(1) of section 73 of the persons with disabilities ( Equal opportunities, Protection of rights and full participation) following amendments to the tamil nadu persons with disabilities (Equal opportunities, Protection of rights and full participation) Rules, 2002.
The amendments hereby shall come into force from the date of publication in the Tamil nadu government gazette