(1) The Government of Nepal shall implement the following social security programs in which the persons with disabilities have contribution or for free on the prescribed conditions in such a manner as to enable the persons with disabilities to make living in the society independently and self-respectfully:
(a) To develop the community housing facilities, along with the safety and health services,
(b) To provide housing for the helpless children and for the persons with disabilities who have been abandoned by the family,
(c) To make life insurance, health insurance and accident insurance,
(d) To provide medicines and other necessary assistive materials,
(e) To provide unemployment allowance, livelihood allowance and elderly citizens’ allowance on the prescribed basis,
(f) To provide allowances to the attendants of the persons with disabilities who are in the prescribed situations,
(g) To support the development and use of universal design for the development of the persons with disabilities,
Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, the term “universal design” means the design of products, physical structures, programmes and services to be usable by all persons, to the greatest extent possible, and this term also includes assistive devices for particular groups of the persons with disabilities.
(h) To provide such other services and facilities as prescribed.
(2) In the implementation of the program referred to in sub-section (1), such matters as the diversity of disability, sex, economic and social condition shall be taken as the basis.