« Campaign for The Rights of the PWDs - India | Main | Training Report : November 15, 2011 : Lecture : IDA and UNCRPD »

November 17, 2011

Disability certificate now guaranteed to be issued within 3 days - India

The following information was retrieved from the "Disability & Development" mailing list with a consent of the publisher, the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE- JETRO).

IBN Live

November 7, 2011

Disability certificate to eligible persons within 3 days: Govt

Shimla, Nov 7 (PTI) Disability certificates would be issued to eligible persons within three days of applying and any deliberate delay in doing so would attract action, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Sarveen Chowdhary today said. Inaugurating a day-long workshop on empowerment of visually impaired persons with the help of technology, she said there were some 67,000 disabled persons in the state and the government was committed to their welfare. She said 1,332 disabled persons had been provided jobs in different departments under a three per cent quota which included 439 visually impaired.

Posted by jicafriends at November 17, 2011 05:09 PM

Comments

Post a comment




Remember Me?