Lok Sabha Question No. 4433 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-01-08
Subject: Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme
Ministry: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT
Asked by: ANTO  ANTONY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT DEPARTMENT OF EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.4433 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.01.2019

## Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme

## 4433. SHRI ANTO ANTONY:

## Will the Minister of SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the objectives and salient features of the Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS);
- (b) whether   the Government   has the number approved and the amount granted under the DDRS during the last three years; and

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT

## (SHRI KRISHANPAL GURJAR)

(a) The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities is implementing a Central Sector Scheme namely; Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS) under which grantin-aid is provided to Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) for their projects relating to rehabilitation of persons with disabilities aimed at enabling them to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric or socio-functional levels.

(b) & (c) The details in respect of the number of proposals received, sanctioned and amount released under Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme during the last three years is given hereunder: -

| Year    | No. of proposals received   | No. of proposals Sanctianed   | Amount Released (Category-wise)   | Amount Released (Category-wise)   | Amount Released (Category-wise)   | Amount Released (Category-wise)   | Amount Released (Category-wise)   |
|---------|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|         |                             |                               | General                           | SCs                               | STs                               | NE                                | Total                             |
| 2015-16 | 673                         | 587                           | 34.18                             | 8.00                              | 4.00                              | 4.00                              | 50.18                             |
| 2016-17 | 623                         | 592                           | 30.32                             | 7.02                              | 3.16                              | 4.50                              | 45.00                             |
| 2017-18 | 582                         | 562                           | 43.00                             | 8.00                              | 4.00                              | 5.00                              | 60.00                             |
| Total   | 1878                        | 1741                          | 107.                              | 23.02                             | 11.16                             |                                   | 155.18                            |

The proposals pending in a year are considered in subsequent year subject to fulfillment of norms of the scheme.