The Mandya Zilla Panchayat, in association with the Red
Cross Society of India, distributed aids and appliances worth Rs. 42
lakh to 697 persons with disabilities at the Red Cross Society in the
town on Tuesday.
The zilla panchayat had procured the
equipment from the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India,
with the association of the Department for Empowerment of Disabled and
Senior Citizens.
Additional Deputy Commissioner B.R.
Poornima and Red Cross vice-president (Mandya) Meera Shivalingaiah
distributed the equipment.
The equipment included tricycles, wheelchairs, crutches, spectacles and artificial limbs.
Panchayat
president Komala Swamy, Mandya Taluk Panchayat president Mahesh, Mandya
City Municipal Council (CMC) president Lokesh, District Health Officer
H.M. Manchegowda, and Deputy Director of Women and Child Welfare
Department K. Diwakar were present.
Source : The Hindu , 22nd Sep 2015
Source : The Hindu , 22nd Sep 2015
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