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Lok Sabha
An overall review of projects supported under the Deendayan Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme made during the previous years revealed that the benefit of the scheme has reached to the disabled beneficiaries in 224 districts only out of about 601 districts in the country. It is also seen that there is large concentration of projects in a few districts. Since it is a Central Sector Scheme it is essential to extend the benefit of the scheme to the disabled in all the districts in the country. In order to check further concentration of projects in any district and to ensure balanced regional growth and distribution of funds, the Screening Committee set up for considering new cases of grant-in-aid proposals during 2003-04 did not find it feasible to support more than two projects under the scheme in each district.
Review of policies is an ongoing process. Every year new NGOs are given grant-in-aid as per existing policy. Grants are continued to NGOs only after they are inspected for the adequacy of their performance.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Smt. Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
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