Land Mark Decisions

• Stamp duty levied on purchase and registration of land/building from housing boards/ development authorities exempted for blinds/ PwD's upto the purchase of Rs. 10.00 Lacs by the tax & registration department.
• U.P. Govt. has banned routine periodic transfers of disabled Government servants and those employees whose dependants are suffering from disabilities.
• In recruitment PwD's have been given upper age limit relaxation of 15 years. PwD's now can apply for recruitment upto the age of 50 years.
• Conveyance allowance of PwD's working with u.p. govt. Has been increased to the maximum of rs. 500/- per month.
• Reservation for persons with disabilities increased from 2 to 3 percent in public distribution system.
• Ration shops are being allotted to PwD's for self employment.
• Sheltered home & vocational training centres are being established for mentally retarded persons in
• Meerut
• Bareilly
• Gorakhpur

 

Polio Corrective Surgeries are being done in different districts

 

No. of corrective surgeries performed 4340 in the following cities

 

• Etawah

• Barabanki

• Ambedkar Nagar

• Lucknow

• Bareilly

• Moradabad

• Sultanpur

• Gorakhpur

• Bulandshahr

 

 

Decentralised system of disability certification

 

• Private practitioners allowed to issue disability certificates
• All CHC/PHCs authorised to issue disability certificates
• Private psychologists / psychiatrists empowered to issue MR certificates.