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"appropriate
Government" means, - |
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in
relation to the Central Government or any establishment wholly
or substantially financed by that Government, or a Cantonment
Board constituted under the Cantonment Act, 1924, the Central
Government; |
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in
relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or
substantially financed by that Government, or any local
authority, other than a Cantonment Board, the State
Government; |
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in
respect of the Central Coordination Committee and the Central
Executive Committee, the Central Government; |
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in respect of the
State Coordination Committee and the State Executive Committee,
the State Government; |
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"blindness"
refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the
following conditions, namely:- |
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total absence of
sight; or |
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visual acuity not
exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with
correcting lenses; or |
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limitation of the
field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse;
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"Central Coordination
Committee" means the Central Coordination Committee constituted
under sub-section (1) of section 3; |
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"Central Executive
Committee" means the Central Coordination Committee constituted
under sub-section (1) of section 9; |
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"cerebral
palsy" means a group of non-progressive conditions of a
person characterised by abnormal motor control posture resulting
from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal,
peri-natal or infant period of development; |
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"Chief Commissioner"
means the Chief Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of
section 57; |
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"Commissioner"
means the Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section
60; |
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"competent authority"
means the authority appointed under section 50; |
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"disability"
means |
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blindness; |
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low vision; |
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leprosy-cured; |
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hearing impairment;
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locomotor disability;
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mental retardation;
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mental illness;
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"employer"
means, |
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in relation
to a Government, the authority notified by the Head of the
Department in this behalf or where no such authority is notified,
the Head of the Department; and |
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in relation to an
establishment, the chief executive officer of that establishment;
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"establishment"
means a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial
or State Act, or an authority or a body owned or controlled or
aided by the Government or a local authority or a Government
company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 and
includes Departments of a Government; |
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"hearing impairment"
means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the
conversational range of frequencies; |
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"institution
for persons with disabilities" means an institution for the
reception, care, protection, education, training, rehabilitation
or any other service of persons with disabilities; |
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"leprosy cured person"
means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from
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loss of
sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and
paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity; |
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manifest
deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their
hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic
activity; |
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extreme
physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him
from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression "leprosy
cured" shall be construed accordingly; |
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"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; |
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"medical
authority" means any hospital or institution specified for
the purposes of this Act by notification by the appropriate
Government; |
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"mental illness"
means any mental disorder other than mental retardation; |
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"mental
retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete
development of mind of a person which is specially characterised
by subnormality of intelligence; |
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"notification"
means a notification published in the Official Gazette; |
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"person
with disability" means a person suffering from not less than
forty per cent of any disability as certified by a medical
authority; |
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"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;
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"prescribed"
means prescribed by rules made under this Act; |
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"rehabilitation"
refers to a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to
reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual,
psychiatric or social functional levels; |
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"special
Employment Exchange" means any office or place established
and maintained by the Government for the collection and furnishing
of information, either by keeping of registers or otherwise,
respecting - |
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persons who seek to
engage employees from amongst the persons suffering from
disabilities; |
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persons with
disability who seek employment; |
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vacancies to which
person with disability seeking employment may be appointed;
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"state Coordination
Committee" means the State Coordination Committee constituted
under sub-section (1) of section 13; |
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"state Executive
Committee" means the State Executive Committee constituted
under sub-section (1) of section 19. |
