<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In Jammu and Kashmir, the Government has nominated Grievance Redressal Officers for Persons with Disabilities in all the concerned departments of the Union Territory. AIR Jammu Correspondent reports that the appointment of these officers has been made under Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 in order to ensure that the persons with disabilities enjoy the rights to equality, life with dignity and respect for his or her integrity equally with others, personal liberty, reasonable accommodation and appropriate environment with zero tolerance for discrimination on the ground of disability. </p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The Social Welfare Department framed the Jammu and Kashmir Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2021 for effective implementation of provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016. The sub-rule (2) of Rule 14 of J&K Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2021 provides that the Grievance Redressal Officer appointed by every department shall maintain a register of complaints of Persons with Disabilities with various particulars like date of complaint, name of complainant, name of the person who is enquiring the complaint, place of incident, the name of establishment or person against whom the complaint is made, gist of the complaint, documentary evidence, if any, date of disposal by the Grievance Redressal Officer, details of disposal of the appeal by the district level committee, and any other relevant information.</span></p>