This document summarizes the key disability-related legislation in India from 1966 to 2016 in 3 paragraphs: Paragraph 1 discusses early legislation from 1966 to 1987 which aimed to promote education for children with disabilities, including the Rehabilitation Council of India Act in 1992 which established the Rehabilitation Council of India. Paragraph 2 covers legislation from the 1990s including the Persons with Disabilities Act of 1995 which defined and categorized disabilities and established rights and entitlements, as well as the National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act of 1999. Paragraph 3 discusses more recent developments including the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act of

1. DISABILITY RELATED
LEGISLATION IN INDIA

2. Introduction
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3. Contd. 3
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6. •1981 International Disability Year
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7. 1991 , 1 1992 ,
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2000
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(CRR)
(CRE)
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9. RCI Act, 1992 2000 -38 , 4 , 2000 -
a. RCI () Act 2000
b.
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10. (, ) 1995
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1995 (1996 1) 73 (1) (2)
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1) Low Vision
2) Visual Impairment
3) Mental Retardation
4) Mental Illness
5) Hearing Impairment
6) Loco Motor Disability
7) Leprosy Cured
- 1995 12

13. , , , , 1999 . 44 (30 , 1999)
, ,
– 1999 13

14. (Preliminary)
(National Trust)
(Objectives of the Trust)
(Powers and Duties of the Board)
(Procedure for Registration)
(Local Level Committee)
(Accountability & Monitoring)
, -(Finanace, Account & Audit)
(Miscellaneous)
– 1999 14

15. -(Day Care Centre)
(Relief & Reach Scheme)
(State Nodal Agency Centre)
(Legel Guardianship)
15

16.  . 2005 , 10 2006
 62 , , , , , , , , , -, , ,
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I. RCI act 1992
II. PWD Act 1995
III. NT Act 1999

2006 16

17. 1. PDDUIPH New Delhi
2. NIVH Dehradun
3. NIOH Kolkata
4. NIMH Secundrabad
5. AYJNIHH Mumbai
6. SVNIRTAR Cuttak
7. NIEPMD Chennai
1. Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya National Institute for Persons with Physical
Disabilities (Divyangjan)
2. National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Visual
Disablities (Divyangjan)
3. National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities (Divyangjan)
4. National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual
Disabilities (Divyangjan)
5. Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities
(Divyangjan)
6. Swami Vivekanand National Institute of Rehabilitation Training and
Research (SVNIRTAR)
7. National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple
2006 17

18. 5 , 4 , 120
500 NGOs
MHFW
1. All India Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AIIPMR) Mumbai 1955
2. All India Institute of Speech And Hearing (AIISH) Mysore 1966
3. National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Science (NIMHANS) Bengaluru 1974
4. Central Institute of psycho clinic Ranchi
2006 18

19. , -2009”
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2009 19

20. ,
2009 20

21. UNCRPD ACT 2011 (RPWD Act 2011) 7 32
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,
2011 (RPWD Act 2011) 21

22. 1) Autism Spectrum Conditions / Autism Spectrum
Disorders
2) Blindness’
3) ‘Cerebral Palsy’
4) ‘Chronic neurological conditions’
5) ‘Deafblindness’
6) ‘Dwarfism’
7) ‘Hemophilia’
8) ‘Hearing Impairment
9) ‘Hard of Hearing’
10)Intellectual disability
11) ‘Leprosy cured’
12) ‘Locomotor disability
13) ‘Low-vision’
14) ‘Mental illness
15) ‘Multiple disabilities
16) ‘Muscular Dystrophy’
17) ‘Multiple Sclerosis’.
18) Specific Learning Disabilities
19) Speech impairment
20) Thalassemia
2011 (RPWD Act 2011) 22

23. 25 2016 2015-16 National Instititute of Speech & Hearing (NISH) Central University for Disability
Studies and Rehabilitation Science
National University of Rehabilitation & Disability Bill 2016 MSJE
National University of Rehabilitation
& Disability Bill 2016
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24.  Education for all (2014)
 "The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 notified". Press Information Bureau.
3 September 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2010.
 NSSO (2003). ‘“Disabled Persons in India”. Website of the Office of Chief Commissioner of
Persons with Disabilities in India, Retrieved from htpp://www.ccdisabilities.nic,in/disability
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