Kathmandu, September 26

The government has issued a procedure for providing grants to various organisations working for the welfare of people with disabilities.

Procedure aims to increase access of people with disabilities to employment by providing them skill training and social security. As per the procedure, the grants will be provided to eligible organisations through the concerned local levels.

The government has provision of funding non-government organisations established and operated to rehabilitate persons with disabilities in the society. The grant is provided on the basis of their programmes once approved by the government. The grant covers programme and administrative expenditure of the concerned organisations in conducting various activities that benefit target groups.

According to the procedure, the government will initiate the process of sanctioning the budget after a organisation submits an application with its proposal of activities and programmes to the concerned local level.

Payment of the grant is made in accordance with the annual programme of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizen.

“The grant has to be spent only for the purpose for which it is provided.

The organisation receiving the grant shall operate programmes to deliver its services in all districts of the province where it has been established,” the procedure read. The grant amount will be provided through banking channel,” it read.

The procedure has tasked the concerned local level to carry out monitoring and evaluation to ascertain whether the organisation has utlised the grant or not. Report on monitoring and evaluation should be sent to the MoWCSC, on a regular basis. If the organisation is found to have misused the grant, the MoWCSC may blacklist it, prohibit the sale or transfer of its tangible and intangible assets and freeze its bank account for further action.

According to 2011 census, about two per cent (513,321) of the total population of the country is living with one or other kind of disability in Nepal. Of them, 280,086 are males and 233,235 are females.

Physical disability constitutes 36.3 per cent of the population with disability followed by blindness/low vision (18.5 per cent), deaf/hard of hearing (15.4 per cent), speech problem (11.5 per cent), multiple disability (7.5 per cent), mental disability (six per cent), intellectual disability (2.9 per cent) and deaf-blind (1.8 per cent). Around 80 per cent of the disabled people in the country are illiterate and 95 per cent of them are unemployed.