Life Long Shelter and Care Scheme - GHARAUNDA

GHARAUNDA - Scheme

(Group Home and Rehabilitation Activities under The National Trust Act for Disabled Adults)

A Life Long Shelter and Care Scheme

  1. An assured home and minimum quality of care services throughout the life of the PwD.
  2. Adequate and quality care service with acceptable living standards including provision of basic medical care from professional doctors.
  3. Vocational activities, pre-vocational activities and assistance for further training.
  4. Batch size 20 PwDs.
  5. Registered Organizations (ROs) should maintain a ratio of 1:1 for LIG (including BPL) and above LIG PwDs.
  6. Scheme will be available in the entire country except J &K.

Scheme Description

This scheme aims at setting up Gharaunda Centres for life long shelter and care of Persons with Disability (PwD) covered under the National Trust Act. Gharaunda Centre should provide at a minimum following facilities:

I. Group Home

RO should provide lifelong group home facility for all Adult PwDs covered under the National Trust Act with adequate and quality care service with acceptable living standards including provision of basic medical care from professional doctors. Batch size of a Gharaunda centre is 20 PwDs with a maximum number of PwDs allowed is 30% extra of batch size i.e. 26 for Gharaunda Centres. On reaching the maximum limit of 26 PwDs, Gharaunda centre shall not allow anymore PwDs to enrol in the centre. ROs are encouraged to apply again if they have sufficient number of PwDs for the new Gharaunda Centre. RO should maintain a ratio of 1:1 for LIG (including BPL) and above LIG PwDs (which will be paid seats for RO). Payment for the above LIG seats could be received by RO from parents, guardians, family members, RO or any other institute / individual directly as per mutual agreed terms and conditions between RO and the other party involved (parents, guardians, family members, RO or any other institute / individual)

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Source: The National Trust Website