Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot on Sunday said the Rights of Persons with Disabilities law passed by Parliament in December, 2016 will be implemented within four months and Universal ID Cards for all Divyangjans will be issued shortly.
At a camp here to distribute ‘Free Aids and Assistive Devices to Persons with Disabilities’ under the ADIP (Assistance to Disabled Persons) scheme of Government of India’ he said there would be no delay in the distribution of the assistive devices and transparency would be maintained in the programme.
He said that more such ADIP camps will be organised in Delhi for distribution of Free Aids and Assistive Devices to Persons with Disabilities. A total of 894 Persons with different kind of disabilities were provided with 1,402 aids and assistive devices valued at over Rs 89 lakhs under the ADIP scheme. The beneficiaries were pre-identified during the assessment camps conducted in North West Delhi District during May and June 2016.
The high quality contemporary aids and assistive devices distributed at the camp were manufactured by Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), and included 85 motorised tricycles.