Question : Institutes for Differently Abled People

a) the number of institutes in West Bengal for care and protection of disabled people along with the number of trained staff working in these institutions;

(b) whether these institutes have the required manpower to take care of the current demand of disabled people and if so, the details thereof along with the plan to expand the same;

(c) the details of facilities provided and the funds allocated and disbursed during the last three years; and

(d) whether the Government is entering into partnerships with NGOs for welfare of disabled people there and if so, the details thereof?

MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
(SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)

(a) & (b) The National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (Divyangjan) (NILD), Kolkata provides rehabilitation services for the Persons with Locomotor Disabilities other than human resource development and research & development.
Besides this, Regional Centres (RC) of National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (Divyangjan) (NIEPID), National Institute Empowerment for the Persons with Visual Disabilities (Divyangjan) (NIEPVD), and Ali Yavar Jung National Institute Speech and Hearing Disabilities (Divyangjan) (AYJNISHD) in Kolkata also provide rehabilitation services to persons with respective disabilities.
Contd….
NILD has overall 109 staff. Whereas, the regional centres of NIEPID, NIEPVD and AYJNISHD have a total number of 67 regular/ guest faculty/ contractual staff including professionals/ teachers in the areas of respective disabilities.
(c) NILD provides assessment services, restorative surgery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, prosthetics & orthotics and socio-economic rehabilitation facilities for locomotor disabilities.
The regional centre for NIEPID provides psychological, medical, educational services, vocational training, early intervention, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and sensory integration therapy for intellectually disabled.
The NIEPVD regional centre provides pre-school programme for visually impaired children, eye clinic, guidance and counseling etc services for the visually disabled.
The AYJNISHD regional centre provides diagnostic and therapy of persons with hearing and speech language disabilities.
The details of funds released to NILD, as well as the regional centres of the various Institutes during last three years and the current year, are as under:-
Rs. in crore
Institute 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 (till 14.12.17)
NILD 12.61 16.85 17.51 16.63
RC of NIEPID 0.22 0.30 0.34 0.44
RC of NIEPVD 0.77 1.03 0.99 0.94
RC of AYJNISHD 1.75 2.42 3.12 2.62

(d) Under the National Action Plan for Skill Development of PwDs 26 training partners have been empanelled from the State of West Bengal including 24 NGOs. The list is given at Annexe-I
Under Deen Dayal Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS), grant-in-aid to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for projects relating to rehabilitation of persons with disabilities aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal, physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric or social functional levels. programmes for pre-school and early intervention is released. The list of the NGOs, in West Bengal, who receive grants under DDRS is given at Annexe-II.
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