Differently-abled become IT-enabled
The spirit to excel in life has made these differently abled persons to foray into IT-enabled Services(ITeS) after they formed a selfhelp group (SHG) specifically for this purpose.
List of Guidelines
Indian Definitions of Disability
Locomotor disability: Means a person’s inability to execute distinctive activities associated with moving, both himself/herself and objects, from place to place, and such inability resulting from affliction of either bones, joints, muscles or nerves.
Glossary of Disability Terms
Glossary of Disability Terms
Tourism for People with Disabilities
Every PWD has a right to live with dignity and grace. He also has the right to move out independently with least assistance.
Disabled Peoples International
Disabled Peoples’ International is an International cross-disability network of 135 national assembly’s (member organizations) of persons with disabilities.
Challenges Vs Responses
A vast majority of disabled children are not getting appropriate education and the existing coverage is very poor.
Accessibility (Asia-Pacific Region Resource)
Accessibility Guidelines prepared by Katie McCausland and Hannah Clark for the Disability Action Council
To ensure that disability is given it’s due in the upcoming Union Budget.
The Union Budget for 2010-2011 is just around the corner and disability groups are stepping up the pressure to ensure that this time around disability issues are not sidelined, just like the Union and Rail Budgets last year.
Reservation & Identified jobs
As per Allocation of Business Rules, 1961, reservation of posts in the Govt., for certain classes of citizens is the concern of Department of Personnel & Training (DOPT). For consolidated instructions on the subject of reservation to persons with disabilities, issued by DOPT vide No. 36035/3/2004-Estt(Res) Dated December 29, 2005, View Complete details about Reservation to the Persons with Disabilities (External website that opens in a new window).
Policy & Guidelines
National Policy For Persons with Disabilities
* National Policy for Persons with Disabilities has been announced in February, 2006. You can have access to English & Hindi Version.Campus2
* The National Policy recognizes that Persons with Disabilities are valuable human resource for the country and seeks to create an environment that provides them equal opportunities, protection of their rights and full participation in society. The focus of the policy is on (a) Prevention of Disabilities and (b) Rehabilitation Measures.