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The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025) approved a connection to found and run District Divyang Rehabilitation Centres (DDRCs) successful each 18 divisional headquarters, aiming to fortify services for persons with disabilities crossed the State.
The determination successful this respect was taken astatine a Cabinet gathering chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
At present, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment supports the functioning of DDRCs successful 37 districts of Uttar Pradesh, portion 1 centre successful Ambedkar Nagar is funded by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), an authoritative connection issued present said.
Of these 37 centres, lone 11 are located successful divisional headquarters.
The officials said the centres person been facing operational difficulties owed to irregular cardinal grants and debased honorarium rates for specializer staff.
The connection follows Chief Minister Adityanath’s support connected October 13, of the department’s program to make a afloat State-funded web of rehabilitation centres crossed each divisions.
The Cabinet has present authorised further enactment to acceptable up and tally 18 DDRCs utilizing the State's ain resources.
According to the Uttar Pradesh Government, the centres volition facilitate a wide scope of services, including surveys and recognition of persons with disabilities, organisation of disablement camps, repair of assistive devices, marking and fitment of prosthetic and mobility aids, gait and usage training, aboriginal recognition and intervention, and consciousness campaigns connected disablement prevention.
The DDRCs volition besides enactment beneficiaries successful accessing Government payment schemes, issuing disablement certificates and Unique Disability ID (UDID) cards, and providing objective services specified arsenic counselling, physiotherapy and code therapy, the connection said.
