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FOUNDATION COURSE FOR DIRECT RECRUIT GROUP-I SERVICES OFFICERS

(2nd BATCH) FROM 18.3.2010 TO 1.5.2010

TOPIC: DISABILITY ISSUES EMPOWERING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Smt. Anita Rajendra, I.A.S.,

Commissioner

Department for the Welfare of Disabled and Senior Citizens,

Government of Andhra Pradesh


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In Seeing In Speech In Hearing In Movement Mental

Population

in

lakhs

Male Female

CENSUS 2001

DISABLED POPULATION IN A.P.

Total = 13.65 lakhs


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PREVENTION OF DISABILTIES

Pulse Polio Immunization programme

Leprosy eradication programme

National Programme for control of blindness

National Mental Health programme

Integrated Child Development Services and

Supplementary Nutrition programmes are

taken to prevent disabilities.


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EDUCATION Providing Free education till 18 years of age

Reservation of 3% seats in all educational

Institutions

Establishment of 11 Special Residential

Schools, 5 for Visually Handicapped, and 6

for Hearing Handicapped

2 Residential junior colleges one each for

Hearing Handicapped and Visually

Handicapped (120 Inmates)


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EDUCATION Providing residential facilities for the

students through 40 Hostels under DisabledWelfare Department and 5 Special Schools (3VH and 2 HH) under School education

Department have been established.

154 schools are run by NGOs (32 for VisuallyImpaired, 40 for Hearing Impaired, 20 forOrthopaedically Disabled and 62 for MentallyRetarded children).


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EDUCATION

6 KGBV Schools are (2 for VH, 4 for HH) arefunctioning.

70 Residential Bridge Centers are functioningfor providing short term training formainstreaming in to normal schools throughSarva Siksha Abhiyan.

For severe disabled persons home basedtraining is provided to the siblings andparents under inclusive education


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EDUCATION

965 blind and Low Vision children, 4215children with Locomotor disability, 3377 withMental Retardation 6425 with speech andhearing impairment are pursuing education inGovernment and private schools.

134000 school going children are admitted in

Inclusive Education.

Provision of Teaching & Learning Materials toall students through Sarva Siksha Abhiyan.


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EDUCATION

115 Integrated Education Centers forDisabled @ 5 in each district 2 for VisuallyHandicapped and 3 for Hearing Handicappedhave been sanctioned in the entire state aresanctioned under school educationdepartment.

Inclusive Education for Children with SpecialNeeds is one of the important interventions

under SSA. To achieve education for all these children shall also be included in regularschool as a zero rejection policy to achievethe ultimate goal of Universalisation ofElementary Education.


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EDUCATION

AP RVM (SSA) has owned up theresponsibility of preparing all school agespecial needs children with basic

communicative, academic and self living skillsbefore they are mainstreamed in to regularschools.

Government run Braille Press for publication

of books for Visually Impaired Introduction of computers to Visually

Impaired through JAWS software


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EMPLOYMENT

The Government of Andhra Pradesh haveidentified the jobs that are manned by thepersons with disabilities videG.O.Ms.No.145, W.D.C.W. & L (WH.Desk)Dept. dated 28.9.1992

The Government of A.P. has providedreservation in favour of the disabled in

Group-I and Group-II services videG.O.Ms.No.297, WD, CW & DW Dept.dt.9.10.2006 and G.O.Rt.No.106, W.D.C.W. &D.W. (DW) Dept. dated 13.4.2007

respectively.


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EMPLOYMENT

On the whole 3% is reserved 1 each for HH,VH and OH in group A and B posts. Under Cand D groups 3592 posts are identified underSpecial Recruitment Drive of which 2791 are

filled.

3% reservation is provided in favour of thedisabled in employment and the reservation istrifurcated into 1:1:1 to the visually impaired,hearing impaired and OrthopaedicallyHandicapped vide G.O.Ms.No.115, W.D.C.W. &

L (WH.Desk) Dept. dt.30.7.1991.


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EMPLOYMENT

Reservations of posts in services and ageconcession has been extended for 10 moreyears vide G.O.Ms.No.21, WD, CW & DW

Dept., dt:29.4.2002.

All departments to set apart 3% of their

budget for implementing self-employmentprogrammes for disabled vide G.O.Ms.No.24,dt:20.5.2002


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EMPLOYMENT

Government have delegated powers to the

Assistant Directors of the department foridentifying the backlog vacancies / freshvacancies reserved for physicallyhandicapped persons and also to verify the

roaster registers as in the case of SC/ST &BC for perfect enforcement of rule ofreservation vide G.O.Ms.No.467, WD & CW(WH.Desk) Dept. dt.22.10.1997

The Government have provided 10 years ofage relaxation in direct recruitment infavour of the disabled vide G.O.Ms.No.21,

W.D.C.W. & D.W. Dept. dt.29.4.2002.


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EMPLOYMENT2696 backlog posts have been identified and

filled. The status is as under:SlNo

Category PostsIdentified

PostsFilled up

Postsyet to

be filledup1 DSC 1088 826 262

2 Other thanDSC

2429 1907 522

3 HODs 75 58 17

TOTAL 3592 2791 801


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ACCESSIBILITY Government have issued orders vide

G.O.Ms.No.30, WD CW & DW Dept., dated17.06.2002 directing all the Departments ofGovernment and important agencies toprovide barrier free environment for easyaccess of the disabled by implementing

C.P.W.D. guidelines.

As per the PWD Act, 1995, it is proposed toamend building Bye laws in Andhra PradeshTown Planning Rules. These Byelaws shall beapplicable to all buildings, recreation areasand facilities used by public including shoppingmalls, cinema theatres, parks, Hotels etc., andalso bus and railway stations.


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ACCESSIBILITY

Proposals have been submitted to Governmentfor provision of Barrier Free Environment inpublic utility buildings / places andamendments to Building Bye Laws Lr.No.

C1/8723/23005 dt.15.03.2008, 11.09.2008and 19.11.2008.

A Core Expert Committee meeting was held on

15.5.2008 at Hyderabad - to examine thetechnical details of the changes proposed bythe State Commissioner in the buildings ofpublic utility for the providing of barrier freeenvironment.


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ACCESSIBILITY A full-fledged workshop was conducted on

10.6.2008 on the proposed changes andincorporated the suggestions given byactivists, NGOs. and Director General ofNational Academy of Construction whoconstituted the Core Expert Committee which

has given the required suggestions ontechnical issues.

APSRTC has launched to AC Semi Low Floor

Ashok Leyland vehicles in hyderabad citywhich was inaugurated by Honble CM on27.03.08 for the APSRTC has placed purchaseorder for 8 more such vehicles which wouldtake the number of semi low floor vehicles to

10.


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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Action is being taken under Section 47 of the

Act to protect the rights of disabled byregistering cases, conducting hearings andissuing orders wherever necessary.

Instances of discrimination in employment arebrought to the notice of the StateCommissioner

Cases are registered and orders are passedafter hearing both the parties


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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Due to timely interventions of State

Commissioner, alternate employment isprovided in most of the cases so far 203 caseshave been registers and 194 have beendisposed.

The details are as under:A B S T R A C T

Subject Registered Disposed

Employment 131 125

Education 37 36

Barrier FreeEnvironment

10 10

Others 25 23

Total 203 194


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STATE COMMISSIONER

Commissioner / Director, Disabled Welfarehas been designated as State Commissionerunder PWD Act vide G.O.Ms.No.2, dt:8.1.2000& Reiterated by G.O.Ms.No:243, WD CW &DW (DW.A2) Dept., dt: 14.09.2007

Converged the efforts of Disabled WelfareDept., with important developmentaldepartments for extending better

rehabilitation services No Separate staff is provided to the State

Commissioner and the Department isfunctioning with the existing staff only.


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Major Achievements of State

Commissioner and State

Enhancement of Marriage Incentive Award fromRs.3000 to 10000 from the year 2008 videG.O.Ms.No.18, WD CW& DW Dept., dt: 19.06.2008.

Enhancement of income ceiling of the parents /guardians to avail various schemes to Rs.1,00,000/-vide G.O.Ms.No.9, WDCW & DW Dept. dt.10.4.2008.

Enhancement of Diet and Cosmetic charges etc., videG.O.Ms.No.15, WD CW & DW Dept, dt: 07.06.2008

M j A hi m nts f St t


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Major Achievements of StateCommissioner and State

S.

No Item Existing Rate Enhanced rate

1 Diet Charges

I to VII Class Rs. 338/- PM Rs. 473/- PM

VIII class to Intermediate Rs. 412/- PM Rs. 535/- PM

2 Cosmetic Charges

Boys/Men Rs. 20/- PM Rs. 50/- PM

Girls/Women Rs. 25/- PM Rs. 75/- PM

3 Hair Cut charges Rs. 5/- PM Rs. 12/- PM

4 Stitching Charges Rs. 20/- per pair and Rs. 40/-

per 2 pairs

Rs. 40/- per pair and Rs.

80/- per 2 pairs

5 Supply of Uniforms Two Pairs per annum Four pairs of uniform per

annum

6 Supply of Bedding material Rs. 120/- p.a. per inmate with

10% price escalation per

year (for every two years)

One set of bedding material

@ Rs. 300/- every year

with price escalation @

10% every year


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S.No

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Class 1985-2007 2008-09

Rate of scholarship

(per annum)

Income Ceiling

(per annum)

Rate of

Scholarship

(per annum)

Income Ceiling

(per Annum)

1 Intermediate Rs. 85/- Rs.24,000/- Rs. 1820/- Rs.1,00,000/-

2Degree

Rs.1250/- Rs.24,000/- Rs. 2400/- Rs.1,00,000/-

3Post Graduation

Rs.1700/- Rs.24,000/- Rs. 4290/- Rs.1,00,000/-

4Professional

Courses

Rs.1700/- Rs.24,000/- Rs. 4290/- Rs.1,00,000/-


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Sanction of direct loans to severelychallenged students studying Post Graduateand professional courses to purchasemotorized vehicle, Sophisticated prosthetic

aids etc., vide G.O.Rt.No.194 WD CW & DW(DW.A2) Dept., dt:30.06.2008.

Providing portable MP3 CD Players to visuallychallenged students as an assistive device forpromoting access to quality education videG.O.Ms.No.209, Women Development. ChildWelfare & Disabled Welfare (DW.A2)Department, dt.9.7.2008.


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Imposing punishment to those who attempt to seek employmenton the basis of false certificate vide G.O.Ms.No.22, WDCW &DW Department, Dt:7-7-2008

Enhancement of Prematric Scholarships as follows videG.O.Ms.No.44 WD CW & DW Dept, dt: 24.11.2008.

S.No. Class 1985-2007 2008-09Rate of

Scholarship

(per annum)

Income

Ceiling (per

annum)

Rate of

Scholarship

(per annum)

Income Ceiling

(per annum)

1 I to V Class Rs. 35/- Rs.24,000/- Rs. 70/- Rs.1,00,000/-

2VI to VIII Class

Rs.50/- Rs.24,000/- Rs. 100/- Rs.1,00,000/-

3IX and X Class

Rs.85/- Rs.24,000/- Rs. 142/- Rs.1,00,000/-


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Government sanctioned social securitydisabled pension @Rs.500 per head per monthirrespective of age w.e.f 01.11.2008. Thepension is sanctioned to 8,28,058

beneficiaries costing the exchequer Rs.496crores vide G.O.Ms.No.454, Panchayat Raj &Rural development (RD.II) Dept.,dt:14.11.2008.

Allotment of houses to the disabled videG.O.Ms.No106, Housing (RH-I) Departmentdt:27.03.2008.


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For availment of any number of differentConcessions given for meeting different needsto differently abled persons vide G.O.Ms.No.19WDCW & DW (DW.A1) Dept. dt.25.6.2008.

The Government vide G.O.Rt.No.395, WD CW& DW (DW.A2) Department, Dt.3.12.2009

issued orders providing laptop to visuallychallenged students as an assistive device forpromoting access to quality education andenhancing their professional skills.


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PROCEDURE FOR CONDUCT OF ASSESSMENTCAMPS FOR ISSUE OF DISABILITY

CERTIFICATES THROUGH SADAREM

The Govt. of India had enacted the Persons withDisabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rightand Full Participation) Act, 1995 and the Act came

into force in Andhra Pradesh on 7.2.1996. Keeping inview the Act, 1995 with Rules notified by Govt. ofA.P. and Govt. of India guidelines on evaluation ofvarious disabilities and procedure for certificationissued in 2001 and 2002 and superseding the existing

rules, Govt. of A.P. have issued comprehensiveguidelines for evaluation of various disabilities andprocedure for certification vide G.O.Ms.No.31dt.1.12.2009.


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PROCEDURE FOR CONDUCT OF ASSESSMENTCAMPS FOR ISSUE OF DISABILITYCERTIFICATES THROUGH SADAREM

All the persons with disabilities shall be assessedafresh regarding percentage of disability and theexisting certificates shall be replaced by re-assessingthe PWDs by the concerned District Medical Board as

per the new guidelines. For this purpose, the DistrictCollector in consultation with the Superintendent,District Headquarters Hospitals and Superintendentof Teaching Hospitals are authorized to constituterequired Medical Boards within the district. The oldcertificates shall become invalid after completion ofthe re-assessment and issue of certificates afresh.

PROCEDURE FOR CONDUCT OF ASSESSMENT


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Government of A.P. issued orders on assessment ofdegree of disability through software and guidelines forassessment vide G.O.Ms.No.371, P.R. & R.D. (RD.II) Dept.dated 2.12.2009.

The Rural Development Department in closecollaboration with Departments of Disabled WelfareDepartment, Medical & Health, NIMH have evolved ascientific computed aided disability assessmentstrategy with the help of HMRI.

This software is called as SADAREM (Software forAssessment of Disabled for Access, Rehabilitation &Empowerment).


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The features of the software are:

Scientific assessment of degree of the disability is doneon the basis of methods and formulae prescribed in theGazette 2001 issued by the Ministry of Social Justice andEmpowerment, Govt. of India.

Generation of a computer based Disability Certificate withunique ID along with Identity Card.

Assessment of needs and maintaining the centralized database. Software will also generate all the details includingthe support services that the disabled persons are

entitled based on the need assessment and a record of theservices provided from time to time.

The database thus generated can be hosted in the PublicDomain to enable service providers to reach out to thedisabled persons.


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The following are the guidelines for effectiveimplementation of the software:-

The SADAREM software should be installed

in all the hospitals where the disabled personsare to be assessed and issued the certificates& ID cards under the supervision of MedicalBoards. However the maintenance ofsoftware and database management shall bethe responsibility of PD-DRDAs inpartnership with HMRI.

All the certificates issued previously by theMedical Boards shall be invalidated onreassessment and fresh certificates issuedalong with ID cards using the above software.

P E E F F E E


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All the Bus passes, Railway concessionand other entitlements will be givenbased on the certificates & ID cards

issued by the above software only.

District Collector may constitute acommittee to organize the camps and

issue the certificates & ID cards to allthe eligible disabled persons and also usethe same software in future for issuingof the certificate & ID cards.


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