About the Institute
Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech and Hearing Disabilities (Divyangjan), AYJNISHD(D) was established on 9th August 1983. It is an autonomous organisation under the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Government of India, New Delhi and is located at Bandra (West), Mumbai.
Regional Centres of the institute have been established in Kolkata (1984), New Delhi (1986), Secunderabad (1986) and Bhubaneshwar (1986- in association with the Government of Odisha). These are centres aimed at meeting local and regional needs in terms of manpower development and services. Regional Centre in New Delhi has been shifted to Noida in 2015 and the Regional Centre at Bhubaneswar has been shifted to Janla in 2008.
There is also CRC at Ahmedabad, Gujarat which was established on 16th August 2011. In Maharashtra, another CRC was set up at Nagpur in 2015 by NIEPID, chennai and transferred to AYJNISHD(D) in 2020. On 8th April 2023 CRC- Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh was inaugurated. All these CRCs function under the administrative control of AYJNISHD(D).
