PANJIM: Directorate of Social Welfare on Monday asked Heads of Departments/Public Sector Undertakings/Autonomous Bodies of Corporations to comply with Section 37 of Special Schemes and Development Programmes for Persons with Disabilities under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.
The section provides for five percent reservation in allotment of agricultural land and housing in all relevant schemes and development programmes, with appropriate priority to women with benchmark disabilities.
“Also five per cent reservation in all poverty alleviation and various developmental schemes with priority to women, and five per cent reservation in allotment of land on concessional rate, where such land is to be used for the purpose of promoting housing, shelters, setting up of occupation, business, enterprise, recreation centres and production centres,” the circular states.
