Disabled Persons Protection and Welfare Regulations, 2051 BS

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Summary updated 2026-10-25

• This is a historical summary of the Disabled Persons Protection and Welfare Rules, 2051, using the Law Commission's edition. The Government made them under section 24 of the Disabled Persons Protection and Welfare Act, 2039; they were published in the Nepal Gazette on 2051/8/12 and commenced immediately, and the edition lists one amendment, the first amendment Rules of 2069 (2069/9/23). An editorial footnote says the 2039 Act has been repealed and the Act relating to the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2074 now applies. The catalogue records these Rules as repealed from the Law Commission's repealed-laws listing; no repeal date for the Rules is inferred. The text uses the older term for disabled people; this summary uses current plain wording without changing the legal meaning.यो अपाङ्ग संरक्षण तथा कल्याण नियमावली, २०५१ को ऐतिहासिक सारांश हो, जसको आधार कानून आयोगको संस्करण हो। अपाङ्ग संरक्षण तथा कल्याण ऐन, २०३९ को दफा २४ अन्तर्गत नेपाल सरकारले बनाएको यो नियमावली २०५१/८/१२ मा नेपाल राजपत्रमा प्रकाशित भई तुरुन्त प्रारम्भ भएको थियो; संस्करणमा २०६९/९/२३ को पहिलो संशोधन नियमावली सूचीकृत छ। सम्पादकीय पादटिप्पणीले २०३९ को ऐन खारेज भई हाल अपाङ्गता भएका व्यक्तिको अधिकार सम्बन्धी ऐन, २०७४ लागू रहेको बताउँछ। कानून आयोगको खारेज भएका कानूनको सूचीका आधारमा सूचीमा यो नियमावली खारेज भएको उल्लेख छ; नियमावलीको खारेजी मिति अनुमान गरिएको छैन। पाठमा पुरानो शब्द 'अपाङ्ग' प्रयोग भएको छ; यो सारांशले कानूनी अर्थ नबदली सरल शब्द प्रयोग गरेको छ। Nepal Law Commissionनेपाल कानून आयोग Source accessed 2026-10-25 Title page, enabling clause and footnote, PDF p.1; Rule 1, p.1
• Where no doctor had been designated under section 3(2) of the Act to define and assess disability, the ministry could form a disability assessment committee of up to seven people, including disability organisations, doctors and experts. Village development committees and municipalities had to keep an up-to-date list of disabled people in their areas, and the social welfare officer, working through them and local disability organisations, had to prepare a record by type and nature of disability and send a copy to the ministry, which kept a national record. The Central Bureau of Statistics had to show disability clearly in the national census. The social welfare officer could issue an identity card, in the ministry's format, so that a person could receive the facilities under the Act and Rules.ऐनको दफा ३(२) बमोजिम अपाङ्गको परिभाषा र अपाङ्गपन निर्धारणका लागि चिकित्सक नतोकिएकोमा मन्त्रालयले अपाङ्ग कल्याणसम्बन्धी सङ्घ संस्था, चिकित्सक र विशेषज्ञसमेत रहने गरी सात जनासम्मको अपाङ्गपन निर्धारण समिति गठन गर्न सक्थ्यो। गाउँ विकास समिति वा नगरपालिकाले आफ्नो क्षेत्रका अपाङ्गको लगत अद्यावधिक राख्नुपर्थ्यो; समाज कल्याण अधिकृतले उनीहरू र स्थानीय अपाङ्ग कल्याण सङ्घ संस्थाको सहयोगमा अपाङ्गताको प्रकृति र प्रकारअनुसार अभिलेख तयार गरी मन्त्रालयमा पठाउनुपर्थ्यो र मन्त्रालयले राष्ट्रिय अभिलेख राख्थ्यो। केन्द्रीय तथ्याङ्क विभागले राष्ट्रिय जनगणनामा अपाङ्गको लगत स्पष्ट देखिने गरी खुलाउनुपर्थ्यो। ऐन र नियमावलीबमोजिम सुविधा दिने प्रयोजनका लागि समाज कल्याण अधिकृतले मन्त्रालयको ढाँचामा परिचयपत्र दिन सक्थ्यो। Nepal Law Commissionनेपाल कानून आयोग Source accessed 2026-10-25 Rules 3-7, PDF pp.1-3
• The Government could set up homes for disabled people in different parts of the country and, until then, use homes run by others without gaining power to interfere in their running. A social welfare officer or police employee who found an elderly or helpless disabled person, or had one brought to them, had to record details including three generations, name, address, photograph, distinguishing marks and thumbprint and hand the person over to the nearest home, whose head had to receive them. Homes had to keep residents separately by sex, and notices could be published to trace the family of an unclaimed person. A management committee of up to seven, including local social workers, a woman social worker, doctors and teachers, set policy, annual programmes, accommodation, food, recreation and regular health checks; a home head ran daily operations and kept the accounts.नेपाल सरकारले आवश्यकताअनुसार विभिन्न क्षेत्रमा अपाङ्ग घर स्थापना गर्न सक्थ्यो र त्यसअघि अरू व्यक्ति वा संस्थाले सञ्चालन गरेको अपाङ्ग घर उपयोग गर्न सक्थ्यो, तर त्यसको सञ्चालनमा हस्तक्षेप गर्ने अधिकार पाउँदैनथ्यो। समाज कल्याण अधिकृत वा प्रहरी कर्मचारीले वृद्ध वा असहाय अपाङ्ग फेला पारेमा वा कसैले बुझाउन ल्याएमा तीन पुस्ते, नाम, थर, ठेगाना, फोटो, शरीरका विशेष चिह्न र औँठाछापसहितको विवरण लिई नजिकको अपाङ्ग घरमा बुझाउनुपर्थ्यो र घर प्रमुखले बुझिलिनुपर्थ्यो। घरमा लिङ्गका आधारमा छुट्टाछुट्टै राख्नुपर्थ्यो र बेवारिसेका परिवार पत्ता लगाउन सूचना प्रकाशित गराउन सकिन्थ्यो। स्थानीय सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता, महिला सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता, चिकित्सक र शिक्षकसमेत रहने बढीमा सात सदस्यीय सञ्चालक समितिले नीति, वार्षिक कार्यक्रम, बस्ने, खाने, मनोरञ्जन र नियमित स्वास्थ्य परीक्षणको व्यवस्था गर्थ्यो; घर प्रमुखले दैनिक सञ्चालन र लेखा हेर्थे। Nepal Law Commissionनेपाल कानून आयोग Source accessed 2026-10-25 Rules 8-13, PDF pp.3-5
• The ministry had to provide free education up to a set level for at most two children of a disabled person, and could support organisations educating disabled people and open special schools by type of disability. Five per cent of places in technical and vocational training run by the Government or its fully or mostly owned corporations were reserved for disabled people, without fees, where the training suited them. Hospitals were to give free health checks; government hospitals with more than fifty beds were to keep at least two free beds; free medicine could be arranged in government hospitals for elderly disabled people over 65 and helpless disabled people; and the ministry could help non-government hospitals that offered such services with prior approval. These are entitlements in the text, not evidence that they were delivered.मन्त्रालयले अपाङ्गका बढीमा दुई सन्ततिलाई निश्चित स्तरसम्म निःशुल्क शिक्षाको व्यवस्था गर्नुपर्थ्यो; अपाङ्गलाई शिक्षा दिने संस्थालाई सहयोग गर्न र अपाङ्गताको प्रकृतिअनुसार विशेष शिक्षा दिने विद्यालय स्थापना गर्न सक्थ्यो। नेपाल सरकार वा सरकारको पूर्ण वा अधिकांश स्वामित्वका सङ्गठित संस्थाले दिने प्राविधिक तथा व्यावसायिक तालिम अपाङ्गका लागि उपयोगी भए पाँच प्रतिशत स्थान सुरक्षित गरिन्थ्यो र शुल्क लिइँदैनथ्यो। अस्पतालमा निःशुल्क स्वास्थ्य परीक्षण हुने; पचासभन्दा बढी शैया भएका सरकारी अस्पतालमा कम्तीमा दुई निःशुल्क शैया राखिने; ६५ वर्ष नाघेका वृद्ध अपाङ्ग र असहाय अपाङ्गलाई सरकारी अस्पतालमा निःशुल्क औषधोपचार गर्न सकिने; र पूर्वस्वीकृति लिई यस्तो सेवा दिने गैरसरकारी अस्पताललाई मन्त्रालयले सहयोग गर्न सक्ने व्यवस्था थियो। यी पाठमा लेखिएका सुविधा हुन्; व्यवहारमा प्राप्त भएको प्रमाण होइनन्। Nepal Law Commissionनेपाल कानून आयोग Source accessed 2026-10-25 Rules 14-16, PDF pp.5-7
• The Government and its fully or mostly owned corporations had to give disabled people priority for work suited to their education, training and physical condition, and could not discriminate between disabled and other employees in pay, facilities or conditions of service. A factory employing disabled people could claim full income-tax exemption, following the procedure in law, on the pay and benefits given to them and on the cost of adapting machinery for them. The Government could set up a disability service fund for education, training, health care and rehabilitation. A disabled person who wanted legal help during a court case was to receive it through a salaried lawyer appointed by the Government, and land given for housing or farming under section 10(1) of the Act could carry a condition that it not be sold.नेपाल सरकार र सरकारको पूर्ण वा अधिकांश स्वामित्वका सङ्गठित संस्थाले अपाङ्गलाई शिक्षा, तालिम र शारीरिक स्थितिअनुकूलको काममा प्राथमिकता दिनुपर्थ्यो र पारिश्रमिक, सुविधा तथा सेवाका शर्तमा अपाङ्ग र अन्य कर्मचारीबीच भेदभाव गर्न पाइँदैनथ्यो। अपाङ्गलाई रोजगारी दिने कारखानाले उनीहरूलाई दिएको तलब, भत्ता वा सुविधा र उनीहरूका लागि यन्त्रमा गरिएको विशेष परिवर्तनको खर्चमा प्रचलित कानूनको प्रक्रिया पुर्‍याई पूर्ण आयकर छुट पाउँथ्यो। शिक्षा, तालिम, स्वास्थ्योपचार र पुनर्स्थापनाका लागि सरकारले अपाङ्ग सेवा कोष स्थापना गर्न सक्थ्यो। मुद्दाको सुनुवाइमा कानूनी सुविधा चाहने अपाङ्गलाई सरकारबाट नियुक्त वैतनिक वकीलमार्फत सुविधा दिइन्थ्यो र ऐनको दफा १०(१) बमोजिम घरबास वा कृषिका लागि दिइने जग्गा बेचबिखन गर्न नपाइने शर्तमा दिन सकिन्थ्यो। Nepal Law Commissionनेपाल कानून आयोग Source accessed 2026-10-25 Rules 17-22, PDF pp.7-8

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