OBJECTIVES:

To establish a District Disability Rehabilitation Centre at seven Districts.

To establish workshop to manufacture and assemble aids & appliances, and to distribute them to the needy through ADIP scheme.

To develop the District Centres into information and service providing centres in the field of disability rehabilitation.

To establish linkages and develop networking among government departments such as welfare, health, education & also involvement of NGOs at district level.

To undertake any other work, such as initiation of services, training programmes for personnel in the field of rehabilitation of the disabled person.

To ensure provision of comprehensive rehabilitation services to the disabled at each district level, the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (GOI) has initiated a nationwide programme in June, 2000. As a first step, 107 districts in various parts of the country have been selected and accordingly NIMH has been allotted 7 districts namely, Wardha (Maharashtra), Gulbarga (Karnataka), Madurai, Thoothukudi (Tamilnadu) Kozhikode ( Kerala) and Trissur (Kerala). NIMH has established fullfledged DDRCs in six districts, details of which are furnished below:

Location	Month of Starting	Nodal Officer	Co-Nodal officer
Gulbarga	July, 2000	Dr. T C Siva Kumar	Mr. Krishna
Kozhikode	August, 2000	Ms.A.T.Thressia Kutty	Mr.K.Ravinder
Madurai	August, 2000	Dr.Vijayalakshmi Myreddi	Mrs.Nibedita Patnaik
Thoothukudi	November, 2000	Mr.T.C.Siva Kumar	Dr.Jayanthi Narayan
Trivandrum	August, 2001	Dr.Om Sai Ramesh	Mr.Srivinas NC
Wardha	July, 2000	Mr.R.C.Nitnaware	Mr.P.Sammaiah
Trissur	July,2001	Ms.A.T.Thressia Kutty	Ms.Binapani Mahapatra
Ujjain	Dec, 2001	Dr.T A Subba Rao	V Ravikanth

• Detailed assessment of disabled persons by trained professionals at the DDRC.
• Evaluation of the needs.
• Selection, Manufacture, Trial fitment and final fitment and training of Aids & Appliances.
• Comprehensive services at the Centre and Camps are provided as under:

A – Information Services
B – Guidance and Counseling
C – Referrals
D – Special Educational & Educational Material
E – Aids/Appliances
F – Medical Advice
G – Vocational Training
H – Medical Certificates
I – ID Cards
J – Travel Concession
K– Loans
L – Scholarships
M – School Admissions
N – Schemes
O – Old age Pension

Consultancy services: both assessment and training

• Early Detection and Intervention.
• Orthotic / Prosthetic aids.
• Hearing evaluation & Hearing aids.
• Speech – Language services.
• Physiotherapy / Occupational Therapy.
• Medical services.
• Special Education.
• Vocational Training.