 bill no 165 of  2015 the persons with disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) amendment bill, 2015byshri gopal chinayya shetty, mp a billfurther to amend the persons with disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) act, 1995 be it enacted by parliament in the sixty-sixth year of the republic of india as follows:—2 after section 43 of the persons with disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) act, 1995, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—1 of 1996insertion of new section 43a"43a (1) the appropriate government shall—5(a) pay disability allowance to every person with disability at the rate of rupees four thousand per month through a government agency or a nationalised bank:facilities to be provided to disabled persons by the appropriate governmentprovided that disability allowance shall be reviewed, from time to time, by the central government according to prevailing cost index;10(b) establish adequate number of homes for persons with disability in every district;(c) provide medical facilities free of cost to every person with disability in government hospitals and other designated dispensaries for the purpose;(d) provide a residential unit free of cost in deserving cases; and15(e) constitute a welfare fund for the welfare and rehabilitation of persons with disability (2) the central government shall, after due appropriation made by parliament by law in this behalf, credit adequate sums to the welfare fund for carrying out the purposes of this act"central government to credit adequate sums to the disabled persons welfare fund statement of objects and reasonsour country has a large number of persons with disability these helpless persons have to face much difficulties due to lack of adequate measures for their care and rehabilitation in the absence of adequate welfare measures, these persons are living in a pitiable condition it has been a tradition in our country to take care of persons with disability but due to financial constraints, all persons, particularly belonging to lower income group, are not in a position to help these persons to lead a dignified lifemost of the persons with disability do not have any regular source of income and cannot afford their daily needs of livelihood being a welfare state, it is foremost duty of the government to provide social security to all persons with disabilitythese persons with disability are being provided assistance under ongoing social security schemes but the same are inadequate in several countries including united states of america, canada, denmark, financial assistance through pension scheme is provided to persons with disability it is, therefore, felt that there is an urgent need for empowerment of persons with disability in our country by way of providing disability allowance, health facilities free of cost, residential units, homes for persons with disability in every district and other welfare measures for themthe bill seeks to achieve the above objectivesgopal chinayya shettymay 7, 2015 financial memorandumclause 2 of the bill provides that the appropriate government shall provide certain facilities like disability allowance, healthcare facilities free of cost, constitution of a welfare fund for persons with disability it further provides that the central government shall credit adequate sums to the welfare fund for the purposes of the act the expenditure in respect of providing certain facilities to persons with disability in the states will be met from the consolidated funds of the respective states however, the expenditure to be incurred in respect of providing certain facilities to the persons with disability in union territories will be borne by the central government the bill, therefore, if enacted would involve expenditure from the consolidated fund of india it is estimated that an annual recurring expenditure of about rupees two thousand crore is likely to be involveda non-recurring expenditure to the tune of rupees thirty crore is also likely to be involved———— a billfurther to amend the persons with disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) act, 1995————(shri gopal chinayya shetty, mp)gmgipmrnd—1240ls—14072015