Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan)

The Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities has been set up under Section 57 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights & Full Participation) Act, 1995 and has been mandated to take steps to safeguard the rights of persons with disabilities.

The Rehabilitation Council India was constituted for regulating and monitoring the training of Rehabilitation professionals and personnel, promoting research in rehabilitation and special education, the maintenance of a Central Rehabilitation Register and related matters.

The main objectives of the National Trust are to enable and empower persons with disabilities to live as independently and as fully as possible, to extend support to registered organisations providing need based services, and to evolve procedure for appointment of legal guardians for persons with disabilities requiring such protection. The Government of India has provided Rs.100 crores toward the corpus of the Trust. The income generated from the corpus is utilized to implement its programmes.

The State Nodal Agency Centres (SNACs) provide coordination assistance at the State level to enable the National Trust to implement its programmes, disseminate information and train parents and professionals. The SNACs function as Information Centres, facilitators, project mentors, training centers, LLC activators and networkers.

The Directory of Aids and Assistive Devices for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) is an online repository of information built as a result of an initiative of the Department of Disability Affairs under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India to collate exhaustive resources around assistive technology on a single platform.
The Department of Disability affairs came into being in 2012 to give a focussed attention to the needs of the PwDs. In addition to running seven National Institutes dealing with different types of disabilities and seven Composite Regional Centres (CRCs), the Government supports through rehabilitation services to PwDs and runs courses for and funds the NGOs similar initiatives.

National Scholarship Portal

In the year 1985-86, the erstwhile Ministry of Welfare was bifurcated into the Department of Women and Child Development and the Department of Welfare. Simultaneously, the Scheduled Castes Development Division, Tribal Development Division and the Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare Division were moved from the Ministry of Home Affairs and also the Wakf Division from the Ministry of Law to form the then Ministry of Welfare.

The National Voter Service Portal (NVSP) was launched on 25^th January 2015 on the occasion of National Voters’ Day by Hon’ble Former President of India Dr. Abdul Kalam. With the aim to provide single window services to electors, NVSP has been made available from ECI website www.eci.nic.in. Users can visit the website and click on to NVSP link to avail the services.

Various services being offered through NVSP are

1.      Search the name in Electoral List.

2.      Apply on line in English/ Hindi Language for new registration. 

3.      Apply online for corrections, if any.

4.      User can view details of his Polling booth, Assembly Constituency and Parliamentary constituency.

5.      User can get the contact details of Booth Level officer, Electoral Registration Officer and other Election officer.

6.      Users can feed Aadhaar Number for attaching it with Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) data

7.      Users can get link to CEO offices websites

8.      Users can view audio visual short films to get educated about election processes.

9.      Audio Visual scripts are also available for getting to know about the polling processes.

10.       Users can watch a short educational film on Electronic Voting Machine(EVM)

            Year 2015 has been marked for “ easy registration and easy correction ” During this year, ECI will endeavour to  put in efforts in providing all possible support services to electors with the help of IT tools. NVSP is one of them. 

The last date for submission of applications for Pre-matric, Post-matric and Scholarship for Top Class Education by the students with Disbilities is 31st October, 2015. To apply online

Please Visit : https://www.scholarships.gov.in