Draft (Amendment) Rule. 2023 incorporating Rural Sector Specific Harmonised Accessibility Standards/guidelines

EXTRAORDINARY PART II —Section 3 —Sub-section ( i) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 423] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2023/ASHADHA 30, 194 5 CG-DL-E-21072023-247516 [फा. सं. I-12012/1/2022 -AIC] MINISTRY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT (Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) ) NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 21st July, 2023 G.S.R. 529 (E). —The following draft of certain rules to amend the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by sub -sections (1) and (2) of section 100 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act , 2016 (49 of 2016), is hereby published as required by sub-section (1) of the said section, for the information of all persons likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft rules shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of a period of thirty days from the date on which the copies of the Official Gazette in which this notification is published are made available to the public; Objections and suggestions, if any, may be addressed to Shri Ram Charan Meena, Under Secr etary to the Government of India, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Room No 11 A, 5th Floor, Pandit DeenDayalAntyodaya Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 110003 or by email at [email protected] The objections an d suggestions, which may be received from any person with respect to the said draft rules before the expiry of the period specified above, will be considered by the Central Government. DRAFT RULES 1. Short title and extent. - (1) These rules may be called the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Amendment) Rules, 2023. (2) They shall come into force from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017, in rule (15), in sub -rule (1), after clause (g), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: - “(h) Rural Sector Specific Harmonised accessibility standards/guidelines as specified in the notification of the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, vide number G.S.R 7 7, dated the 26th June 2023.” [F. No. I -12012/1/2022 -AIC] RAJEEV SHARMA, Jt. Secy . Note : The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017 were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub -section (i) vide notification num ber G.S.R. 591 (E), dated the 15th June, 2017 and was last amended vide G.S.R. 517 (E), dated the 17th July,2023. Uploaded by Dte. of Printing at Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi -110064 and Published by the Controller of Publica tions, Delhi -110054.