Disabilities: under 'Persons with Disability Act (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995', are as under:
Locomotors Disability - (Orthopaedically Handicapped) - means minimum 40% disability of the bones. Joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs.
Hearing Impairment - means loss of sixty decibel or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.
Blindness – “Blindness” refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:-
- Total absence of sight, or
- Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses, or
- Limitation of the field 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 task with appropriate assistive device.
