National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities, (NIEPMD)

National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities, (NIEPMD)

Profile ID:

ID-DIV19082059

Contact Person Name:

Director

Phone Number:

044- 27472113

Email:

Niepmd@gmail.com

The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Govt. of India is working and aiming for the empowerment of persons with disabilities since its commencement. This ministry is serving the disabled through its seven delivery models. These are conducting awareness, sensitization and HRD programs, undertaking research & development, providing assistive devices and livelihood for persons with disabilities (PwD) in the year 1980 which reinforces the idea of serving disabled. The United Nation declared decade for disabilities (1982-1992), which led to the advent of the most of the National Institutions. These Institutes started earlier, were working for the persons with Disabilities of different individual categories (single disabilities). The decade between 1993-2002 was declared as the Asia pacific decade of the disabled persons. Further extended as extension of Asia Pacific decade for the disabled 2003-2013.
Address:

Kovalam Post, SH 49, Muttukadu, Tamil Nadu 600119, Mettupalayam, Tamil Nadu

Area of expertise:

Multiple Disablity