THE PERSONS WITH

DISABILITIES(EQUAL
OPPORTUNITIES, PROTECTION
OF RIGHT AND FULL
PARTICIPATION)ACT, 1995
The PWD ACT WAS PASSED
BY THE PARLIYAMENT ON
DEC 12 1995 AND HAS
COME INTO
ENFORCEMENT ON 07 FEB
1996 .
THERE ARE SEVEN MAIN TYPES
OF DISABILITIES WHICH ARE
COVERED WITHIN THIS ACT
LOW VISION
LEPROSY-CURED
HEARING IMPAIRMENT
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
MENTAL ILLNESS
LOCOMOTOR DISABILITY
BLINDNESS
1.Low vision
 Low vision is the term used to describe significant
visual impairment that can't be corrected fully with
glasses, contact lenses, medication or eye surgery.
2.Leprosy cured
 Leprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe,
disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms,
legs, and skin areas around the body.
3.Hearing impairment
 Loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the
conversational range of frequencies.
 Hard of hearing
4.Intellectual disability
 Condition of incomplete development of mind of a
person which is specially characterized by sub-
normality of intelligence.
5.Mental illness
 Mental illnesses are health conditions involving
changes in emotion, thinking or behavior (or a
combination of these). Mental illnesses are associated
with stress and problems functioning in social, work or
family activities.
6.Locomotor disability
DISABILITY OF THE BONES,
JOINT OR MUSCLES LEADING
TO SUBSTANTIAL RESTRICTION
OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE
LIMBS OR A USUAL FORM OF
CEREBRAL PALSY.
7.blindness
 A condition where a person suffers from any of the
following conditions namely:
 Total absence of sight or
 Limitation of the field vision subtending an angle of 20
degree or worse.
THE MENTAL
HEALTH ACT,
1987
AS PER THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT
1987,GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA,MINISTRY OF LAW AND
JUSTICE,”MENTALLY ILL PERSON”
MEANS A PERSON WHO IS IN
NEED OF TREATMENT BY
REASON OF ANY MENTAL
DISORDER OTHER THAN MENTAL
RETARDATION.
 THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT
CLEARLY EXCLUDES THE PERSONS
WITH MENTAL RETARDATION
FROM THE DEFINITION OF
PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
.IT SEPARTED MENTAL
RETARDATION FROM MENTAL
ILLNESS.
NATIONAL
TRUST
ACT,1999
NTA IS A STATUTORY
BODY UNDER THE
MINISTRY OF SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND
EMPOWERMENT,
GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA.
THE
BENEFICIARIES OF
THE ACT ARE
PERSON WITH
AUTISM
CEREBRAL PALSY
MENTAL
RETARDATION
MULTIPLE
DISABILITIES
THE BASIC
OBJECTIVES OF
THE NATIONAL
ACT ARE:
TO EMPOWER PERSON WITH
DISABILITIES TO LIVE AS
INDEPENDENTLY AND AS
CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY
TO WHICH THEY BELONG.
TO DEAL WITH THE
PROBLEMS OF PERSONS
WITH DISABILITY WHO DO
NOT HAVE FAMILY SUPPORT.
TO PROMOTE
MEASURES FOR THE
CARE AND
PROTECTION OF
PERSONS WITH
DISABILITY IN THE
EVENT OF DEATH OF
THEIR PARENT.
RIGHTS TO
PERSON WITH
DISABILITY ACT,
2016
Rights of Persons With
Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPWD
Act) was enacted by the Rajya
Sabha on 14 December 2016 and
by the Lok Sabha on 17
December 2016. This Act came
into force on 30 December 2016.
RPWD 2016 replaces the ages
old Persons with Disabilities Act
1995.
THE NUMBER OF RECOGNIZED
DISABILITY CONDITIONS HAS
BEEN INCREASED FROM 7 TO 21.
NOW PERSONS AFFECTED BY
ANY OF THE FOLLOWING
CONDITIONS CAN APPLY FOR
THE DISABILITY CERTIFICATE:
BLINDNESS
LOW-VISION
LEPROSY CURED PERSONS
HEARING IMPAIRMENT
(DEAF AND HARD OF
HEARING)
LOCOMOTOR
DISABILITY
DWARFISM
INTELLECTUAL
DISABILITY
Mental Illness
Autism Spectrum
Disorder
Cerebral Palsy
Muscular Dystrophy
Chronic Neurological
conditions
Specific Learning
Disabilities
Multiple Sclerosis
Speech and Language
disability
Thalassemia
Hemophilia
Sickle Cell disease
Multiple Disabilities
including deaf-
blindness
Acid Attack
victim
Parkinson’s
disease
LEPROCY CURED
BLINDNESS
DWARFISM
LOCOMOTOR DISABILITY
INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
LOW VISION
CEREBRAL PALSY
SPECIFIC LEARNING
DISORDER
AUTISM SPECTRUM
DISORDER
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
MENTAL ILLNESS
HEARING IMPAIRMENT
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
DISABILITY
HEMOPHILIA
SICKLE CELL DISEASE
MULTIPLE DISABILITIES
ACID ATTACK VICTIM
PARKINSON’S DISEASE