PDUNIPPD is an autonomous organization under the administrative and financial control of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. The Institute for the Physically Handicapped came into being when the erstwhile JawaharLal Nehru Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and other allied institution run by the council for the Aid of crippled & handicapped were taken over by the Government of India on 22nd May 1975 and converted into an autonomous body in the year 1976. It was renamed after Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya in the year 2002
Aims and objectives
Human resource development
- Physiotherapy or Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Prosthetics and orthotics
Rehabilitation by the way of Outpatient Services in the fields of Orthopedics, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Prosthetics and Orthotics, Speech Therapy and other rehabilitation services as the society may deem fit to orthopaedically disabled persons with associated mental retardation.
Research and development:
- To undertake, initiate, sponsor or stimulate research aimed at developing more effective techniques for the education and rehabilitation of the disabled persons.
- To co-operate with national, regional or local agencies in research or such other activities as may be designed to promote the development of services for the disabled persons
Contact Us :
Address: 4, Vishnu DigamberMarg, Mata Sundari Railway Colony, Mandi House, New Delhi, Delhi 110002
Phone: 011 2323 6193
Email: diriph@nic.in
Website: http://www.iphnewdelhi.in/