 Hello, I welcome you all once again to my channel Explore Education. I am Dr. Rashmi Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Education at this Kanna Girls University College, University of Palahapur and in the series of discussing many issues over inclusive education, this time I am going to discuss PWD Act 1995 on Integrated Education or Persons with Disabilities. Okay. The lecture will be bilingual mode and must useful for your various teaching examinations as well as for your regular B.A.M.A and professional B.H.M.H courses. So, first of all, what is the background of PWD Act? The PWD, Equal Opportunity is Protection of Rights and Full Participation Act. Which means PWD persons with disability or people with disability get equal opportunity for protection of rights and full participation. 1995 was inactive to give an effect to the proclamation on the full participation and equality of the people with disabilities in the Asia and Pacific region. Why did this happen in 1995? Because in Asia and Pacific region, work was going on, proclamation on the full participation and equality of the people with disabilities. So, to complete it, PWD Act was made. The proclamation was issued in a meeting of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific region in December 1992 at Beejing. In Beejing, in December 1991, an economic and social commission was held in Beejing which was launched in Asia and Pacific region. Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, from 1933-2002. This meeting was held in December 1992. It was decided that the next proclamation will be made for Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons so that more work is done for the disabled person in this proclamation. The Act listed seven conditions of disabilities. So, this is a Section of the Act which is listed in which. Blindness, Right? Darkness or low vision. She doesn't seem to be seeing light. She doesn't seem to be seeing light. Lepracy is cured. She is cured with her leprosy or her skin is dry. Hearing impairment, there's some bad thing. People have difficulty in moving around with motor disability. mental retardness, mental illness or mental illness. These seven conditions were taken in this act. The act adopted an approach of social welfare. The social welfare approach was carried out by the society. The main focus was on prevention and early detection of disabilities. The main focus of this act was to early detection of disabilities. We were able to find out if there was any problem with any person. We were able to stop them. We were able to talk about their education and employment. The main focus was on making the barrier-free situation a measure of non-discrimination. We were able to tell them that there was no problem with any education or employment. We were able to tell them that we are living with non-discrimination attitudes. We were able to tell them that we are living with non-discrimination attitudes. The persons with disabilities act 1995 has come into enforcement on February 7, 1996. The act was done in 1995. This law is an important landmark. It is a significant step in the direction to ensure equal opportunities for people with disabilities and their full participation in the nation building. We were able to ensure that people with disabilities are able to get their full participation in the nation building. This is an important step in the direction. The act provides for both preventive and promotional aspects of rehabilitation. We were not able to stop them. If we have a problem, we can promote the work of the community. We can provide them education, employment, vocational training, and provide them with some resources to protect themselves. We can provide them with some resources to protect themselves. We can provide them with some resources to make the barrier-free environment for them. We can provide them with rehabilitation and re-establishment of their own. We can provide them with unemployment and establishment of homes for persons with severe disability. There are so many areas on which this act is focused. What are the main provisions of this act? Prevention and early detection of disabilities. We can stop them if they are detected early. They can talk about their education, employment, and non-discrimination. We will not discriminate them. We will not discriminate them. We will research and see how they can be improved. We will take positive action for them. We will talk about their social security. If they have any problems, they can note down their problems. We will also talk about grievance and redressal. Let's take one by one. Prevention and early detection of disabilities. How will we detect them early? We will do a survey. We will go home. Surveys, investigations, and research shall be conducted to ascertain the cause of occurrence of disabilities. We will find out what are the causes of disability. Various measures shall be taken to prevent disabilities. If there is an opportunity to stop the disability, they should be treated. Staff at the primary health centre shall be trained to assist in this work. The PHC of the primary health centre in that area should be trained for this work. All the children shall be screened once in a year for identifying at-risk cases. All the children should be screened at least once a year so that they can know if there is any risk. If there is any risk, we can prevent it and cure it. Awareness campaigns shall be launched and sponsored to disseminate information. A lot of awareness shall be carried out so that we can spread more information. Measures shall be taken for pre-natal, pre-natal, and post-natal care of the mother and child. If there is a mother and child in a family, we can check the number of children and their health. For education, every child with disabilities shall have the right to free education at the age of 18 in integrated schools and special schools. If you are studying in an integrated school, then you have the right to free education for 18 years. Appropriate transportation, removal of architectural barriers, and restructuring of modifications in the examination system shall be ensured for the benefit of children with disabilities. If there are any problems with the children, then we have appropriate transportation. How will they reach the school? If there is any problem, then we should remove it so that we don't have architectural barriers. We should modify and restructure our examination system so that we can benefit these children. Children with disabilities shall have the right to free books, scholarships, uniform, and other learning materials. They also have the right to give books, scholarships, uniforms, and other learning materials. Special schools for children with disabilities shall be equipped with vocational training facilities. If there is a special school where only children are studying, then there should be a vocational training facility so that they can learn from anyone. Non-formal education shall be promoted and NFE should be promoted for them. If you cannot learn from formal education, then you can learn from non-formal education. Teachers' training institutions shall be established to develop requisite manpower. All your teacher training institutions should be equipped with such facilities so that they can develop the required manpower. The required manpower means teaching the children this way. Parents may move to appropriate four-off for the redressal of women answers regarding the placement of their children with disabilities. If they have any problem with their children's admission or placement, then what is employment? 3% of vacancies in government employment shall be reserved for people with disabilities. Whoever is an aggressive person with disabilities will be protected by 3% for each person suffering from 1% each. 3% for blind, 1% for hearing impaired and 2% for people with disabilities. There are many other skills such as training and welfare of persons with disabilities to be trained, relaxation of upper age limit to improve the upper age limit regulating the employment and working for health and safety measures. You can work on environment with such conditions. And the institutions who are granted grants from the government will have to be protected under the PWD Act. No employee can be sad or demoted. You cannot demote anyone if there is a problem during the service. No promotion can be denied because of impairment. You cannot deny any promotion because of impairment. All these rules are written in this. What is affirmative action? What is positive action? Help the aids and appliances if they want to make a home or a business or a special recreational center or want to open special schools or want to open research schools or want to make factories for entertainment and disability then you can allow them on a concessional rate. How can non-discrimination be distributed to them? Public building, rail compartment bus, ship, aircraft can be designed so that the disabled people can reach there easily. In all public places and waiting rooms all the public places and waiting rooms toilets can be wheelchair accessible from where the wheelchair can reach. Braille and sound symbols are also provided in lifts. There is a symbol of sound that the person can deal with it. All the places of public utility shall be barrier free by providing ramp so that the wheelchair can easily get down. This way they will feel that they cannot be distributed. If there is a ramp then how will the wheelchair get down? They will not be able to do it. Research and manpower development Research in the following areas shall be sponsored and promoted. If research is going on in this area then it should be sponsored and promoted. Prevention of disability How will you stop the disability? If research is going on for rehabilitation Development of assistive devices make a device that can help them find a job for them On-site modifications of offices and factories If there is research based on these areas then it should be sponsored and promoted. Financial assistance shall be made available to the universities. Give them support and higher learning institutions professional bodies, non-government research units promote financial assistance which is being done on special education, rehabilitation and manpower development. Social security How to provide social protection? Financial assistance to NGOs for rehabilitation of persons with disabilities who are working in NGOs provide financial assistance insurance coverage for the benefit of the government employees with disabilities Unemployment allowance If they are not in employment then they can work in this way to provide social protection If they have a problem then they can tell them in case of any violation of rights as described in the Act People with Disabilities they can move an application so much written that the government will protect them so if you see that some rights are being violated then you can write Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities in the Centre Okay So this is the whole thing PwG Act 1995 It was a big landmark in the area of integrated education But now a new one has come What has come? After India signed and ratified the UNCRPD What is UNCRPD? United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act in 2007 The process of enacting a new legislation in place of persons with disabilities Act 1995 in 2010 to make it compliant with the UNCRPD Since India signed the UNCRPD then the PwG Act in 1995 takes a new form in 2010 After series of consultation meetings and drafting process There are many meetings and drafts Then there is a concept Rights of PwG Act 2016 What is this name? The name of RpWD Act 2016 which has passed from the houses When did this happen? It was notified on December 28, 2016 After the presidential ascent What has been said in this? Persons with Disabilities are a respect for inherent dignity Individual autonomy including the freedom to make one's own choices and independence of persons That means you can dignify it and give it autonomy so that you can choose your own choices The Act laid stress on non-discrimination Do not argue with them Full and effective participation Let them take it Make them feel inclusion Respect for difference If there is any problem with it then it should be respected Acceptance of Disabilities as part of Human Diversity and Humanity Equality of Opportunity Accessibility Respect for the evolving capacities of Children with Disabilities If there is any problem then it should be respected Respect for the right of Children with Disabilities to preserve their identity To preserve their identity These areas stress out gives strength The principle reflects a paradigm shift in thinking about disability from a social welfare concern to a human rights issue Your RpWD Act in a social welfare policy approach Human rights issue Human rights should be considered as a right In the RpWD Act 2016, the list has been expanded from 7 to 21 conditions There are 7 types 21 types Cerebral Palsy Dwarfism Muscular Dystrophy Hard of Hearing Speech and Language Disabilities Specific Learning Disabilities Autism Chronic Neurological Disorders Multiple Sclerosis Parkinson's disease Blood Disorders Heemophilia, Thalassemia, Sickle Celandemia Multiple Disabilities Everything that they improved is not left The RpWD Act 2016 provides that the appropriate government that the PWD enjoys means that the persons with disability enjoy They get the right to equality They get the right to equality They can live a dignified life and respect for their own integrity equally with others means that there are more broad and wider and human aspects The RpWD Act 2016 Okay This is the RpWD Act and this is the RpWD Act So this is the full list and what it does what provisions are there what issues are there So your PWD Act is complete Okay So thank you and don't forget to like and subscribe my channel Explore Education It is done from my side