‘The Handicapped Persons Pension Second Amendment Rules, 2004’ amended.

Chandigarh, March 27- Haryana Government has amended ‘The Handicapped Persons Pension Second Amendment Rules, 2004’ and the new rules would be called as ‘The Haryana Divyang Pension Rules, 2016’.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of Social Justice and Empowerment Department said that a notification has been issued in this regard.
Referring to the eligibility criteria for the handicapped pension as per the new rules, he said that a person in the age group of 18 years and above would be eligible for grant of handicapped pension, if he is a domicile of Haryana and has been residing in the State for three years at the time of submission of application. His or her close relative such as parents, son, son’s sons are not supporting him and his or her own annual income from all sources is not more than minimum wages of unskilled labour as notified by the Labour Department and circulated by Department on year to year basis.
He said that apart from this, to become eligible for this pension, the person has a disability certificate of 60 per cent or more in prescribed and respective forms as per notification issued by Health Department dated September 12, 2013 for the disabilities as mentioned in section 2(i) of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. These disabilities included blindness, low vision, leprosy cured, hearing impairment, locomotor disability, mental retardation and mental illness, he added.