About:
- District Disability Rehabilitation Centre (DDRC) provide comprehensive services to persons with disabilities and facilitate creation of infrastructure and capacity building at the district level for awareness generation, rehabilitation and training of rehabilitation professionals.
The salient features of the DDRC are as under –
- 310 districts have been identified and 263 DDRCs have been set up
- Awareness generation, early intervention and assessment of the need of assistive devices to divyangjans.
- Therapeutic services such as Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy etc. to divyangjans through rehabilitation professionals.
- Equipment for rehabilitation services.
Scheme revision:
DDRCs scheme has been revised with effect from 01-04-2018. The salient features of the revised schemes are –
- Increase in honorarium and contingency by 2.5 times;
- Grant-in-Aid for equipment increased from Rs. 7 lakhs to Rs. 20 lakhs at the time of setting up of DDRC;
- Upto 75% of the Grant-in-Aid can be given on the recommendation of District Magistrate/Collector;
- Payment for rentals of leased premises;
- Funding of DDRC from SIPDA rather than DDRS and Number of staffs has been increased from 10 to 12.
