Marga Schulze Scholarship Scheme for Girls with Visual Impairment
UDIS Forum and CBM India have announced Marga Schulze Scholarship Scheme for helping Girls with Visual Impairment to pursue higher education.
List of scheme
Implementation of persons with disabilities Act – 1995
Implementation of the directions of “Supreme Court to implement the provisions ‘of Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 in Writ Petition (Civil) No.116 1998 – Justice Sunanda Bhandare Foundation vs. union of India & Ors ors.
Relax allowance norms for persons with disability
There is also a need to relax the norms which say that the allowance is permissible only to those who do not have an able-bodied person above the age of 18 in the family and that the total value of assets of the family must not be above Rs.5,000. The norms were very old and need to be changed. He said procedures for getting ID cards for persons with disability must be simplified. “Presently people are being made to run around for at least three months to get the cards,”.
Sahyogi Scheme – Caregivers Training & Deployment
Scheme of Community Based Caregivers Training was launched with a view to provide good quality training to interested persons for becoming caregivers to the needy persons with disabilities. Subsequently, the training module was revised and another scheme for Deployment of Caregivers was launched. Both the schemes could not produce the desired result due to a variety of reasons some of which are as below:
Special Casual Leave for Differently Abled Persons working in Transport Corporations
Tamilnadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today said differently-abled people in the State Transport Corporations would be given special casual leave with pay on 3 December, which was being observed as International Day for Disabled.
Tamil nadu scheme for differently abled
Tamil Nadu has been always a pioneer in the implementation of welfare schemes for all sections of socially disadvantaged groups. Recently a separate administrative department in the Secretariat called Department for the Welfare of the Differently Abled Persons has been created under the direct supervision of Hon’ble Chief Minister.
Schemes implemented through SCAs & Nationalised Banks loan for differently abled
Schemes implemented through State Channelising Agencies (SCAs) & Nationalised Banks. The small business, project or activity, for which financial assistance has been sought will have to be operated by the disabled person himself and employing at least 15% disabled persons in his venture.
Scheme of Integrated Education for the Disabled children
This is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and was launched in 1974 by the then Department of Social Welfare. The Scheme has however been transferred to the disabled children Department of Education since 1982. Under the scheme, handicapped children are sought to be integrated in the normal school system. Hundred per cent assistance is provided to the States/UTs for education of the children
Gist of the Scheme for Differently abled Persons
Visually Impaired, Hearing Impaired, Mentally
Retarded and Locomotor Differently Abled
persons are provided with free special
education, Vocational Training to Mentally
Retarded, free boarding and lodging. Two sets
of Uniforms and Text books are given free of
cost every year.
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