Describe various schemes with respect to Social Security, Health, Rehabilitation and Recreation for a person with disability.

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Describe various schemes with respect to Social Security, Health, Rehabilitation and Recreation for a person with disability.

Answer & Explanation:

Section 24 of Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 states that within limits of economic capacity, the government shall formulate schemes and programmes to ensure adequate standard of living for people with disability. Section 24 (3) enumerates the variety of schemes in this regard such as: community centres with good living conditions in terms of safety, sanitation, health care and counselling; facilities for persons including children with disabilities who have no family or have been abandoned, or are without shelter or livelihood; support during natural or man-made disasters and in areas of conflict; support to women with disability for livelihood and for upbringing of their children; access to safe drinking water and appropriate and accessible sanitation facilities especially in urban slums and rural areas; provisions of aids and appliances, medicine and diagnostic services and corrective surgery free of cost to persons with disabilities with such income ceiling as may be notified; disability pension to persons with disabilities subject to such income ceiling as may be notified; unemployment allowance to persons with disabilities registered with Special Employment Exchange for more than two years and who could not be placed in any gainful occupation; care-giver allowance to persons with disabilities with high support needs; comprehensive insurance scheme for persons with disability, not covered under the Employees State Insurance Schemes, or any other statutory or Government-sponsored insurance schemes; any other matter which the appropriate Government may think fit.

Topics: Social Welfare Legislation

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