Year of Disability in line of Duty – Eligibility for ECHS Beneficiaries

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Central Organisation ECHS
Adjutant General’s Branch
HQ of MoD (Army)
Maude Lines
Delhi Cantt – 110 010

26 Sep 2018

B/49701-PR/AG/ECHS/2018

IHQ of MoD (Navy)/Dir ECHS (N) Air HQ (VB)/DPS
All Comd HQs (A/ECHS)
AMA ECHS, Embassy of India, Nepal
Director General of Indian Coast Guard
Director General NCC
Director General SFF
ADG TA/TA-3
All Regional Centres, ECHS

ELIGIBILITY OF PERMANENTLY DISABLED UNMARRIED SON OF A ECHS BENEFICIARY TO AVAIL ECHS FACILITY

1. “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill – 2016” has been revised, which will replace the existing PWD Act – 1995. The permanent disabilities have been increased from existing 7 to 21.

2. In consonance with spirit of Indian Army wherein the year 2018 has been declared “Year of Disability in line of Duty” MoD (DoESW) has approved applicability of PWD Act 2016 wef 18 Sep 2018 vide their ID No 18(77)/2017/WE/D(Res-I) dated 18 Sep 2018 wherein sons suffering from following disabilities :-

(a) Blindness.

(b) Low-vision.

(c) Leprosy Cured persons.

(d) Hearing Impairment (deaf and hard of hearing).

(e) Locomotor Disability.

(f) Dwarfism.

(g) Intellectual Disability.

(h) Mental Illness.

(j) Autism Spectrum Disorder.

(k) Cerebral Palsy.

(l) Muscular Dystrophy.

(m) Chronic Neurological conditions.

(n) Specific Learning Disabilities.

(o) Multiple Sclerosis

(p) Speech and Language Disability

(q) Thalassemia

(r) Hemophilia

(s) Sickle Cell Disease

(t) Multiple Disabilities including deaf, blindness

(u) Acid Attack Victim

(v) Parkinson’s Disease

(BS Sisodia)
Col
Dir (Ops & Coord)
for MD ECHS

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(a) Online.

(i) CPGRAMS. Centralized Public Grievance Redress & Monitoring System run by Deptt of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Govt of India can be accessed on web site http://pgportal.gov. in/.

Grievance related to ECHS are automatically routed to DoESW/Central Org ECHS.

(ii) Army Veterans Grievance Handling Portal. This portal is launched by Army Veteran Cell for redressing grievances of our esteem veterans. The web ID of this portal is indianarmyveterans.gov.in.

(b) E-Mail. E-Mail to the Director (Complaint & Litigation) on his e-mail ID dircomplaints-mod@nic.in.

(c) Normal Post. Forward grievances at following address :- Director (Complaint & Litigation) Central Organisation ECHS Adjutant General’s Branch Integrated HQ of MoD (Army) Maude Lines, Near Blood Bank, Sadar Bazar, Delhi Cantt – 10

Email – dircomplaints-mod@nic.in.

(d) Helpline. Helpline No 1800-114-115 is operationalised from 0900hr to 1700hr (Monday to Friday).

(e) Telephone numbers and e-mail IDs of important functionaries are at Appendix.

(f) Self Attestation. ECHS self attested proforma for dependent Son / Daughter above 18 years of age has been circulated to all Command Headquarters and all Regional Centres vide Central Org ECHS letter No.B/49711-SC/AG/ECHS dated 10 Feb 2017, as additional check for authentication of rightful dependent beneficiary.

Note : Beneficiaries are requested to:-

(i) First approach concerned OIC Polyclinic/Stn HQs/Regional Centre for grievances if any and for resolving the issues expeditiously.
(ii) Lodge their grievances on-line as per Para 3 (a) for resolving them on fast track basis as also monitoring progress on their grievances.

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