What are the provisions of the …

As per the PwD act of 1995, "Person with Disability" means a person suffering from not less than forty per cent of any disability as certified by a medical authority. It covers following disabilities :

• Blindness
  • "blindness" refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:---
    • (I) total absence of sight.
    • (ii) visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or
    • (iii) limitation of the filed of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse,
• Low vision : "person with low vision" means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device.
• Leprosy-cured: "leprosy cured person" means any person who has been cured of leprosy.
• Hearing impairment : "hearing impairment" means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better year in the conversational range of frequencies.
• Locomotor Disabilities & Cerebral Palsy : "locomotor disability" means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.
• Mental retardation including ASD, Down Syndrome : "mental retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person which is specially characterised by subnormality of intelligence.
• Mental illness: "mental illness" means any mental disorder other than mental retardation.