Guidelines for assessment of disabilities - gazette 5 Jan 2018 http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2018/181788.pdf

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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

Whereas the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment

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MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

[Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan)] 

NOTIFICATION 

New Delhi, the 4th January, 2018 

S.O. 76(E).—Whereas the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and  Empowerment,  had  constituted  an  expert  committee  vide  order  dated  the  8th  July,  2015 (Annexure  I)  under  the chairmanship of Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities to suggest guidelines for evaluation and procedure for certification of various specified disabilities;  And whereasthe expert Committee met on the 10th November, 2015 and decided that eight sub-committees in the following categories should be set up: 

• (i)    locomotor disability; 
  
• (ii)   visual impairment;  
  
• (iii)  hearing impairment; 
  
• (iv)  chronic neurological conditions; 
  
• (v)   persons affected with blood related disorders;  
  
• (vi)  developmental disorders;  
  
• (vii)  mental illness; and 
  
• (viii) multiple disabilities; 
  

And whereas the above eight sub-committees were set up by  the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities vide orders dated the 21st September, 2016, the 3rd October, 2016 and the 23rd January, 2017. 

And whereas the said sub-committees, after detailed deliberations, submitted their reports and these reports were examined by the expert committee headed by Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities;  

And whereas the expert committee noted that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is the final authority to recommend  guidelines  on  evaluation  and  procedure  for  certification  of  specified  disabilities  and  accordingly  the consolidated  reports  of  all  the  eight  sub-committees  were  referred  to  the  Ministry  of  Health  and  Family  Welfare  for finalisation; 

And  whereas  a  meeting  was  held  on  the  11th  April,  2017  under  the  chairmanship  of  Secretary,  Ministry  of Health and Family Welfare to consider the reports submitted by the eight sub-committees and subsequently  Ministry of Health and Family Welfare conveyed their recommendations on 9th June 2017;  

Now,  therefore,  in  exercise  of  powers  conferred  by  Section  56  of  the  Rights  of  Persons  with  Disabilities  Act, 2016  (49  of  2016),  the  Central  Government  hereby  notifies  the  guidelines  for  the  purpose  of  assessing the  extent  of following  specified  disabilities  in  a  person  after having  considered  the  recommendations  of  the  Ministry  of  Health  and Family Welfare as provided at Annexure II, namely:- 

• I.   locomotor  disability  including  cerebral  palsy,  leprosy  cured,  dwarfism,  acid  attack  victims  and muscular dystrophy; 
  
• II.  blindness and low-vision;
  
• III. deaf and hard of hearing and speech and language disability; 
  
• IV.  intellectual disability and specific learning disabilities;  
  
• V.   mental illness; 
  
• VI.  chronic neurological conditions;  
  
• VII. haemophilia, thalassemia and sickle cell disease; and  
  
• VIII.multiple disabilities.  
  

2. The  said  guidelines  for  the  purpose  of  assessing  disabilities  at  Annexure  II  shall  supersede  the  guidelines  for evaluation of various disabilities and procedure for certification vide Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment  notification  number  16-18/97-NI  I.  dated  the  1st  June  2001  and  the  guidelines  for  evaluation  and assessment  of  mental  illness  and  procedure  of  certification vide  Government  of  India,  Ministry  of  Social  Justice  and Empowerment notification number 16-18/97-NI  dated the 18th February 2002, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession. 

Note  1:- In  terms  of  Section  57  of  the  Rights  of  the  Persons  with  Disabilities  Act,  2016  (49  of  2016),  the  State Governments  or  as  the  case   may  be,  Union  Territory Administrators   shall  designate  persons,   having  requisite qualifications  and  experience,  as  certifying  authorities,  who  shall  be  competent  to  issue  the  certificate  of  disability  and also  notify  the  jurisdiction  within  which  and  the  terms  and  conditions  subject  to  which,  the  certifying  authority  shall perform its certification functions. 

Note 2:- The Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India shall be the final authority to decide upon cases where any controversy or doubt arises in matters relating to interpretation of the definitions or classifications or evaluation procedure regarding the said guidelines.

...[ For Annexure 2 and the entire guidelines view the attachment or visit the following link ]

Guidelines for the purpose  of assessing the extent of specified disability in a person included under the Rights  of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (49 of 2016)   - whole document with annexure in English and Hindi

[faranak tafrishi]

 

Dear Sir or Madam

I am an occupational therapist at The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, The State Welfare Organization of Iran, The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare. I am writing to ask you, if possible, please send me a copy of  the English version of “Guidelines for the purpose  of assessing the extent of specified disability in a person included under the Rights  of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (49 of 2016)”.

Thank you so much in advance. I am looking forward to hearing from you

Sincerely yours,

Faranak Tafrishi

[Vaishnavi Jayakumar]

Hi,

The attachment linked to this topic - Guidelines for assessment of disabilities - gazette 5 Jan 2018 http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2018/181788.pdf

has both Hindi and English in same document. English version is from page 63-117.