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Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Chapter 8

Title: Non-discrimination

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....for the blind or for persons with low vision; (e) devising appropriate symbols of disability; (f) warning signals at appropriate places. Section 46 - Non-discrimination in the built environment The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for-- (a) ramps in public buildings; (b) adaptation of toilets for wheel chair users; (c) braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or lifts; (d) ramps in hospitals, primary health centres and other medical care and rehabilitation institutions. Section 47 - Non-discrimination in Government employment (1) No establishment shall dispense with, or reduce in rank, an employee who acquires a disability during his service: Provided that, if an employee, after acquiring disability is not suitable for the post he was holding, could be shifted to some other post with the same pay scale and service benefits: Provided further that if it is not possible to adjust the employee against any post, he may be kept on a supernumerary post until a suitable post is available or he attains the age of superannuation, whichever is earlier. (2).....

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 44

Title: Non-discrimination Intransport

State: Central

Year: 1995

Establishments in the transport sector shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development for the benefit of persons with disabilities, take special measures to-- (a) adapt rail compartments, buses, vessels and aircrafts in such a way as to permit easy access to such persons; (b) adapt toilets in rail compartments, vessels, aircrafts and waiting rooms in such a way as to permit the wheel chair users to use them conveniently.

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 45

Title: Non-discrimination on Theroad

State: Central

Year: 1995

The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for-- (a) installation of auditory signals at red lights in the public roads for the benefit of persons with visually handicap; (b) causing curb cuts and slopes to be made in pavements for the easy access of wheel chair users; (c) engraving on the surface of the zebra crossing for the blind or for persons with low vision; (d) engraving on the edge of railway platforms for the blind or for persons with low vision; (e) devising appropriate symbols of disability; (f) warning signals at appropriate places.

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 46

Title: Non-discrimination in the Builtenvironment

State: Central

Year: 1995

The appropriate Governments and the local authorities shall, within the limits of their economic capacity and development, provide for-- (a) ramps in public buildings; (b) adaptation of toilets for wheel chair users; (c) braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or lifts; (d) ramps in hospitals, primary health centres and other medical care and rehabilitation institutions.

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Section 47

Title: Non-discrimination in Governmentemployment

State: Central

Year: 1995

(1) No establishment shall dispense with, or reduce in rank, an employee who acquires a disability during his service: Provided that, if an employee, after acquiring disability is not suitable for the post he was holding, could be shifted to some other post with the same pay scale and service benefits: Provided further that if it is not possible to adjust the employee against any post, he may be kept on a supernumerary post until a suitable post is available or he attains the age of superannuation, whichever is earlier. (2) No promotion shall be denied to a person merely on the ground of his disability: Provided that the appropriate Government may, having regard to the type of work carried on in any establishment, by notification and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in such notification, exempt any establishment from the provisions of this section.

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Complete Act

Title: Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....title, extent and commencement Section2 - Definitions Chapter 2 Section3 - Central Co-ordination Committee Section4 - Term of office of Members Section5 - Disqualifications Section6 - Vacation of seats by Members Section7 - Meetings of the Central Co-ordination Committee Section8 - Functions of the Central Co-ordination Committee Section9 - Central Executive Committee Section10 - Functions of the Central Executive Committee Section11 - Meetings of the Central Executive Committee Section12 - Temporary association of persons with Central Executive Committee for particular purposes Chapter 3 Section13 - State Co-ordination Committee Section14 - Terms and conditions of service of Members Section15 - Disqualifications Section16 - Vacation of seats Section17 - Meetings of the State Co-ordination Committee Section18 - Functions of the State Co-ordination Committee Section19 - State Executive Committee Section20 - Functions of the State Executive Committee Section21 - Meetings of the State Executive Committee Section22 - Temporary association of persons with State Executive Committee for particular purposes Section23 - Power to give directions Section24 -.....

State Commission for Women Act, 1995 Chapter III

Title: Functions and Powers of the Commission

State: Karnataka

Year: 1995

..... (h) undertake promotional and educational research so as to suggest ways of ensuring due representation of women in all spheres and identify factors responsible for impending their advancement, such as, lack of access to housing and basic services, inadequate support services and technologies for reducing drudgery and occupational health hazards and for increasing their productivity; (i) inspect or cause to be inspected a jail, remand home, women's institution or other place of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise and take up with the concerned authorities for remedial action, wherever found necessary; (j) fund litigation involving issues affecting a large body of women; (k) participate and advice on the planning process of socio-economic development of women; (l) evaluate the progress of the development of women under the State; (m) make periodical report to the Government on any matter pertaining to women and in particular various difficulties under which women toil; (n) involve with voluntary organisations in the State, more particularly women's organisations besides governmental departments and its agencies in the discharging of its.....

State Commission for Women Act, 1995 Section 9

Title: Functions of the Commission

State: Karnataka

Year: 1995

..... (h) undertake promotional and educational research so as to suggest ways of ensuring due representation of women in all spheres and identify factors responsible for impending their advancement, such as, lack of access to housing and basic services, inadequate support services and technologies for reducing drudgery and occupational health hazards and for increasing their productivity; (i) inspect or cause to be inspected a jail, remand home, women's institution or other place of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise and take up with the concerned authorities for remedial action, wherever found necessary; (j) fund litigation involving issues affecting a large body of women; (k) participate and advice on the planning process of socio-economic development of women; (l) evaluate the progress of the development of women under the State; (m) make periodical report to the Government on any matter pertaining to women and in particular various difficulties under which women toil; (n) involve with voluntary organisations in the State, more particularly women's organisations besides governmental departments and its agencies in the discharging of its.....

Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1995

.....in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- CHAPTER 1 : PRELIMINARY SECTION 1 : Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) It shall come into force on such date3 (a) [a] 7-2-1996-See Gax. of Ind.. 7-9-1996. Pt. II, S. 3(i), Ext., p. 1 (No. 84). as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint. SECTION 2 : Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.- (a) "appropriate Government" means,- (i) in relation to the Central Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonment Act, 1924 the Central Government: (ii) in relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or any local authority, other than a Cantonment Board, the State Government: (iii) in respect of the Central Co-ordination Committee and the Central Executive Committee, the Central Government: (iv) in respect of the State.....

The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 Complete Act

State: Kerala

Year: 1995

.....OF RIGHTS AND FULL PARTICIPATION) ACT, 1995 THE PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, PROTECTION OF RIGHTS AND FULL PARTICIPATION) ACT, 1995 No.1 OF 1996 [1stJanuary,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 to Proclamation aforesaid. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--- CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARY 1. Short title. Extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities. Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. .....