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Sunday 28 April 2013

Odisha Govt to continue free uniform scheme for disabled students

The state government on Saturday decided to continue the provision of free uniforms to students with disability studying in special schools and initiate steps for providing travel concessions to Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in the urban areas.

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik while reviewing the welfare programmes for the PWDs at the State Secretariat here, directed the women and child development department to continue providing four pairs of free uniforms to each student of the special schools. 

Required fund for the uniforms will be provided to each student at a time in a year out of the Bhima Bhoi Bhinnakhyama Samarthy Abhiyan (BBSA) and the Chief Ministers’ Relief Fund, sources said.

The chief minister also asked the authorities to ensure provision of more loan assistance with Differential Rate of Interest (DRI) to the PWDs to make them self-reliant. Besides, a decision was taken to initiate steps for providing travel concession to the disabled persons in the urban areas.

Source informed the state government had introduced the innovative BBSA scheme, a single window system, to provide all assistances, including the minimum entitlements to PWDs. Samarthy Sibirs are being organised under the BBSA for identification of the PWDs and distribution of minimum entitlements. 
 
So far, as many as 2.8 lakh PWDs have been registered by organising 621 Sibirs.

As many as 83,000 PWDs have been issued income certificates, 68,000 bus passes and 80,000 have been provided with Re1-a-kg rice. 
 
While 2.18 lakh PWDs are given monthly pension, 14,970 disabled students are being given scholarship to undertake higher study under the Banishree scheme. 

Besides, in order to facilitate the PWDs get employment as well as self–employment, one special ITI has been established at Baranga, sources said.
 
According official sources, the number of PWDs per lakh population in Odisha stood at 3,295 in 2011. About 50 per cent of PWDs have disability in movement and about a quarter have disability in sight.

The disability in hearing, speech and mind constitutes 20 per cent, 5 per cent and 9 per cent of the total disabled population, respectively.
 
 
Source : India Education Diary , 28th April 2013

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