Mizoram

Facilities and concessions in Mizoram

1. Concerned officer

The Director
Social Welfare Department,
Government of Mizoram,
Aizawal.

2. Reservation in Government job

In Grade `C' and `D' posts under the Government, reservation are provided in direct recruitment for physically disabled persons as indicated below:

3. Scholarship / Stipend

Handicapped students who are enrolled in institutions are awarded stipend at the following rates:
a) Class I - VI - Rupees 30 per month
b) Class VII-VIII - Rupees 40 per month
c) Class IX and above - Rupees 60 per month

Also disabled persons undergoing various vocational trainings are given stipend @ Rupees 75 p.m.

4. Assistance for self-employment

Grant in aid in cash and in other way are awarded to disabled persons for self-employment in pig rearing, vegetable vending/petty business etc. Besides this carpentry tools, knitting machines, sewing machines and cobbler tools are given in kind.

5. Vocational training centre

The Department runs vocational training centres for disabled persons at Aizawal and Lunglei. Hostel accommodation is provided to male and female trainees separately at Aizawal.

6. Prosthetic aid

Prosthetic aid is given in the form of artificial limbs, hearing aid, wheel chairs etc. to physically disabled according to their needs.

7. Old age pension

Under the scheme of old age pension, financial assistance to destitute/invalid persons without any ostensible means of livelihood and no near relatives to support them or totally blind persons without relatives to look after them are given Rupees 100 per month per individual.

8. Old age home

Old age home with the capacity of 20 inmates is opened at Aizawal. In the Home, old age persons who have no relatives to look after them are admitted with free fooding and accommodation. Recreational facilities are also provided.

9. Residential institution and training centre

This Centre is for socially disabled women who are in distress. The Centre imparts training in Tailoring. Sewing machines are also given to the trainees after completion of their training period.

10. Grant in aid to NGOs engaged in the welfare of disabled persons

Government of Mizoram encouraged efforts of Non-Government Organisation (NGO) in the field of disabled persons and support their programmes substantially by giving grants-in-aid from time to time.