The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities through its various organisations strives to address the concerns of person with disabilities for their effective rehabilitation and inclusion.
The Artificial Limb Manufacturing Corporation (ALIMCO) has started a help line service for providing information on aids and assistive devices for PwDs including repair of such devices. Similarly National Handicapped Finance Development Corporation (NHFDC), which provides loan at concessional rate of interest and also runs skill training programmes for PwDs has started help line services for dissemination of information relating to such matters.
Further, one of the National Institutes namely National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (NIEPID), Secunderabad is providing information relating to special education, occupational therapy physiotherapy related issues etc, through a dedicated toll-free helpline number.
In addition, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, the premiere Health Institute under Ministry of H&FW also has a dedicated helpline for persons with autism and their parents.
With a view to give wide publicity to these helpline numbers of the above organisations, the department has started advertising these numbers through Doordarshan news channel from July 23.