Scheme for Providing handholding Support to Disabled Entrepreneurs through Vishesh Udyami Mitras This scheme aims to provide handholding support to needy Persons with Disability in order to avail concessional credit under NHFDC schemes for setting up own businesses. Objective: Main objective is to provide assistance to needy disabled people in ...
Read More »Scheme for Disabled Young professional: Get loan up to Rs. 25 lakh
In a bid to instil self-confidence among disabled youth and help them through providing financial assistance for self-employment, the National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (NHFDC) has implemented a scheme for professionally educated unemployed disabled youth known as Scheme for Disabled Young Professional. Eligibility Criteria: Any Indian citizen having 40% ...
Read More »Govt to launch ‘Accesible India’ to help physically challenged people
News: Accessible India, the next sweeping initiative bearing the stamp of the Prime Minister’s Office, will introduce landmark initiatives over the next five years to make the country disabled-friendly. For starters, the government is working to introduce set-top boxes that will make TV programmes more useful for the visually impaired. Officials ...
Read More »Accessible India: Let’s make public buildings disabled friendly
News: As a part of Accessible India, Centre is roping in big corporates and asking them to take up a school, hospital, park, mall or other public building in their city for this purpose. The initiative will begin with the identification of public places that are inaccessible to the differently ...
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