Defective vision
pranab majumdar
(Querist) 16 December 2012
This query is : Resolved
Respected sir,
Up to what extent defective vision due to work injury in a company can be declared as
disability? pl.suggest.Regards.
Pranab
Nadeem Qureshi
(Expert) 16 December 2012
Dear Majumdar
you should contacted a lawyer in your area
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 16 December 2012
It can be declared even 1% but please do contact to doctor and not to use because he has to declare.
prabhakar singh
(Expert) 16 December 2012
In India, the broad definition of visual impairment as adopted in the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 as well as under
the National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB) is given below:
1.1 Blindness : refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions, namely:
Total absence of sight; or
Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen)in the better eye even with correction lenses; or Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse.
For deciding the blindness, the visual acuity as well as field of vision have been considered.
1.2 Low Vision: The Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995 also recognizes low vision as a category of disability and defines it as follows:
“Person with low vision” means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after treatment or standard refractive Categories of visual impairment Cate- Corrected
ased on visual acuity and does
not take into account functional vision.
The WHO working definition has been adopted since WHO Consultation in 1992. This working definition is solely used for reporting purposes and should not be used for eligibility of services.
The importance of the functional definition lies in the ‘label’
people are given. Someone with a visual acuity of 2/60 can have useful vision, for example, for mobility. However, he orshe will be labelled blind person.
The consequence is this person with Disability Act, 1995, i.e. visual acuity of 6/60 (20/200)
or less and field of vision of 20 degree and less and to consider
all the persons in the range of acuity of 6/18 to 6/60 (20/60
to 20/200) as persons with low vision.
One-Eyed Person: There is a controversy regarding the
inclusion of one-eyed persons in the category of blindness.
The definition of blindness adopted in India exclude people with impairment only in one eye from the purview of blindness.
Even in medical parlance, disability is synonymous to the physical impairment and the level of such impairment has been prescribed for certifying a person to be disabled. Generally, the impairment of 40 percent or more is considered a handicap. As percentage of impairment in the case of a one-eyed person is only 30 percent, according to the approved definition in medical parlance,a person with one good eye is not a blind person.
In short, a person with visual impairment of 40 per cent or more is considered a blind person.
pranab majumdar
(Querist) 17 December 2012
Respected sirs,
Thanks for your advices.
Regards.
pranab
