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persons with disabilities and they constitute 2.13 per cent of the total population of the country. These include persons with visual, hearing, speech, locomotors and mental disabilities. India is a signatory to the Declaration on the Full Participation and Equality of People with Disabilities in the Asia Pacific. India is also a signatory to the Millennium Framework for action towards an inclusive, barrier free and rights based society. India signed the UN Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities and India ratified the Convention on 1st
) National Institute for the Visually Handicapped, , (ii) National Institute for Orthopedically Handicapped, Kolkata, (iii) Ali Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai, (iv) National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped, , (v) National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and Research, Cuttack, (vi) Institute for the Physically Handicapped, New Delhi, (vii) National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities, Chennai. These institutes are mainly responsible for conducting innovative researches, organise training programmes for manpower development and deliver services in the country.
, Bhopal, and . These centres conduct training programmes to prepare professionals in the field of rehabilitation as well as provide rehabilitation services to the disabled. Four Regional Rehabilitation Centres for Spinal Injuries and other Orthopaedic Disabilities at , Cuttack, Jabalpur and Bareilly are providing services for basic management and follow-up of the spinally injured so as to make the affected persons functionally independent. Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India
of technical and entrepreneurial skills to enable beneficiaries to manage their production units efficiently. , DRDAs, etc. The implementing agencies are provided grant-in-aid for purchase, fabrication and distribution of aids and appliances. The scheme also includes under its ambit medical/surgical correction and intervention that may be essential prior to figment of aids and appliances.
machinery both at the Central and State-level. Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities notice of non-implementation of any law meant for persons with disabilities and is vested with the powers of a civil court relating to summoning of witness, discovery, requisitioning and production of any documents.