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Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016
Chapter I: Preliminary
Chapter II: Rights and Entitlements
- Section 3: Equality and non-discrimination
- Section 4: Women and children with disabilities
- Section 5: Community life
- Section 6: Protection from cruelty and inhuman treatment
- Section 7: Protection from abuse, violence and exploitation
- Section 8: Protection and safety
- Section 9: Home and family
- Section 10: Reproductive rights
- Section 11: Accessibility in voting
- Section 12: Access to justice
- Section 13: Legal capacity
- Section 14: Provision for guardianship
- Section 15: Designation of authorities to support
Chapter III: Education
Chapter IV: Skill Development and Employment
Chapter V: Social Security, Health, Rehabilitation and Recreation
Chapter VI: Special Provisions for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities
- Section 31: Free education for children with benchmark disabilities
- Section 32: Reservation in higher educational institutions
- Section 33: Identification of posts for reservation
- Section 34: Reservation
- Section 35: Incentives to employers in private sector
- Section 36: Special employment exchange
- Section 37: Special schemes and development programmes
Chapter VII: Special Provisions for Persons with Disabilities with High support Needs
- Section 38: Special provisions for persons with disabilities with high support
- Section 39: Awareness campaigns
- Section 40: Accessibility
- Section 41: Access to transport
- Section 42: Access to information and communication technology
- Section 43: Consumer goods
- Section 44: Mandatory observance of accessibility norms
- Section 45: Time limit for making existing infrastructure and premises accessible and action for that purpose
- Section 46: Time limit for accessibility by service providers
- Section 47: Human resource development
- Section 48: Social audi
Chapter IX: Registration of Institutions for Persons with Disabilities and Grants to Such Institutio
Chapter X: Certification of Specified Disabilities
Chapter XI: Central and State Advisory Boards on Disability and District Level Committee
- Section 60: Constitution of Central Advisory Board on Disability
- Section 61: Terms and conditions of service of members
- Section 62: Disqualifications
- Section 63: Vacation of seats by Members
- Section 64: Meetings of the Central Advisory Board on disability
- Section 65: Functions of Central Advisory Board on disability
- Section 66: State Advisory Board on disability
- Section 67: Terms and conditions of service of Members
- Section 68: Disqualification
- Section 69: Vacation of seats
- Section 70: Meetings of State Advisory Board on disability
- Section 71: Functions of State Advisory Board on disability
- Section 72: District-level Committee on disability
- Section 73: Vacancies not to invalidate proceedings
Chapter XII: Chief Commissioner and State Commissioner for Persons With Disabilities
- Section 74: Appointment of Chief Commissioner and Commissioners
- Section 75: Functions of Chief Commissioner
- Section 76: Action of appropriate authorities on recommendation of Chief Commissioner
- Section 77: Powers of Chief Commissioner
- Section 78: Annual and special reports by Chief Commissioner
- Section 79: Appointment of State Commissioner in States
- Section 80: Functions of State Commissioner
- Section 81: Action by appropriate authorities on recommendation of State Commissioner
- Section 82: Powers of State Commissioner
- Section 83: Annual and special reports by State Commissioner
Chapter XIII: Special Court
Chapter XIV: National Fund for Persons with Disabilities
Chapter XV: State Fund for Persons with Disabilities
Chapter XVI: Offences and Penalties
- Section 89: Punishment for contravention of provisions of Act or rules or regulations made thereunder
- Section 90: Offences by companies
- Section 91: Punishment for fraudulently availing any benefit meant for persons with benchmark disabilities
- Section 92: Punishment for offences of atrocities
- Section 93: Punishment for failure to furnish information
- Section 94: Previous sanction of appropriate Government
- Section 95: Alternative punishments
Chapter XVII: Miscellaneous
- Section 96: Application of other laws not barred
- Section 97: Protection of action taken in good faith
- Section 98: Power to remove difficulties
- Section 99: Power to amend Schedule
- Section 100: Power of Central Government to make rules
- Section 101: Power of State Government to make rules
- Section 102: Repeal and savings
- Section 103: Specified Disability
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