Pwd act 1995

The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996) PUBLISHED IN PART II, SECTION 1 OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE OF INDIA MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 1st January, 1996/Pausa 11, 1917 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 1st January, 1996, and is hereby published for general information: - No.1 OF 1996 [1st January 1996] An Act to give effect to the Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the People with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region. WHEREAS the Meeting to Launch the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons 1993-2002 convened by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific held at Beijing on 1st to 5th December, 1992, adopted the Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of People with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region; AND WHEREAS India is a signatory to the said Proclamation; AND WHEREAS it is considered necessary to implement the Proclamation aforesaid. • Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows: -

According to Person with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. Disability means- • Blindness; • Low Vision; • Leprosy Cured; • Hearing Impairment; • Locomotor Disability; • Mental Retardation; • Mental Illness; “ Blindness" refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:- • Total absence of sight. or • Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or • Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse. "Leprosy cured person" means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from- • Loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity; • Manifest deformity and paresis; but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity; • Extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevent him from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression "leprosy cured" shall be construed accordingly. "Hearing impairment" means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better year in the conversational range of' frequencies. "Locomotor disability" means disability of the bones, joints muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy. "Cerebral palsy" means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterized...