Section 2 of the Persons With Disabilities Act, 1995

1. "appropriate Government" means,
   1. in relation to the Central Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or a Cantonment Board constituted under the Cantonment Act, 1924, the Central Government;
   2. in relation to a State Government or any establishment wholly or substantially financed by that Government, or any local authority, other than a Cantonment Board, the State Government;
   3. in respect of the Central Coordination Committee and the Central Executive Committee, the Central Government;
   4. in respect of the State Coordination Committee and the State Executive Committee, the State Government;
      
      
2. "blindness" refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:-
   1. total absence of sight; or
   2. visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses; or
   3. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse;
   
   
   
3. "Central Coordination Committee" means the Central Coordination Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3;
   
   
4. "Central Executive Committee" means the Central Coordination Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 9;
   
   
5. "cerebral palsy" means a group of non-progressive conditions of a person characterised by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, peri-natal or infant period of development;
   
   
6. "Chief Commissioner" means the Chief Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 57;
   
   
7. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 60;
   
   
8. "competent authority" means the authority appointed under section 50;
   1. "disability" means -
   2. blindness;
   3. low vision;
   4. leprosy-cured;
   5. hearing impairment;
   6. locomotor disability;
   7. mental retardation;
   8. mental illness;
   
   
   
9. "employer" means,
   1. in relation to a Government, the authority notified by the Head of the Department in this behalf or where no such authority is notified, the Head of the Department; and
   2. in relation to an establishment, the chief executive officer of that establishment;
   
   
   
10. "establishment" means a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, or an authority or a body owned or controlled or aided by the Government or a local authority or a Government company as defined in section 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 and includes Departments of a Government;
    
    
11. "hearing impairment" means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies;
    
    
12. "institution for persons with disabilities" means an institution for the reception, care, protection, education, training, rehabilitation or any other service of persons with disabilities;
    
    
13. "leprosy cured person" means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering from -
    1. loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye-lid but with no manifest deformity;
    2. manifest deformity and paresis but having sufficient mobility in their hands and feet to enable them to engage in normal economic activity;
    3. extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him from undertaking any gainful occupation, and the expression "leprosy cured" shall be construed accordingly;
       
       
14. "locomotor disability" means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy;
    
    
15. "medical authority" means any hospital or institution specified for the purposes of this Act by notification by the appropriate Government;
    
    
16. "mental illness" means any mental disorder other than mental retardation;
    
    
17. "mental retardation" means a condition of arrested or incomplete development of mind of a person which is specially characterised by subnormality of intelligence;
    
    
18. "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
    
    
19. "person with disability" means a person suffering from not less than forty per cent of any disability as certified by a medical authority;
    
    
20. "person with low vision" means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device;
    
    
21. "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
    
    
22. "rehabilitation" refers to a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric or social functional levels;
    
    
23. "special Employment Exchange" means any office or place established and maintained by the Government for the collection and furnishing of information, either by keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting -
    1. persons who seek to engage employees from amongst the persons suffering from disabilities;
    2. persons with disability who seek employment;
    3. vacancies to which person with disability seeking employment may be appointed;
    
    
    
24. "state Coordination Committee" means the State Coordination Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 13;
    
    
25. "state Executive Committee" means the State Executive Committee constituted under sub-section (1) of section 19.