Rs. 2-a-kg rice for disabled persons
Chief Minister announces a series of sops for the physically-challenged
HYDERABAD: The State Government has decided to provide rice at Rs. 2 a kg for
all persons with physical disabilities from April next year.
The Government will include cochlear implants, the electronic device that
restores partial hearing to the hearing-challenged in the Rajiv Arogya Sri
health
insurance scheme which will be extended to five more districts - Ranga Reddy,
Nalgonda, Chittoor, East and West Godavari - from December 5. The scheme,
enabling the poor to have access to corporate hospitals, is operational on a
pilot basis in Mahabubnagar, Srikakulam and Anantapur districts.
Several facilities
Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy announced a series of sops on Sunday
during his interaction with representatives of several organisations of the
disabled.
The meeting comes in the light of the demonstration staged by
physically-challenged persons under the leadership of Madiga Reservation Porata
Samiti president
Manda Krishna Madiga who, however, was not present in protest against the
Government refusal to convene an all-party meeting.
Dr. Reddy said steps had been initiated to constitute an exclusive society for
juvenile and disabled persons that would have on its board a practising disabled
person from the judiciary and representatives of voluntary organisations
working for the disabled. Mandal Samakhyas were being constituted with the
physically-challenged
to ensure that they were given loans at three per cent interest ('Pavala
vaddi').
The disabled were being enrolled for pensions under the Indiramma scheme based
on saturation concept. All the physically challenged would be covered under
the pension scheme once its third phase was completed, he added.
The delegation comprised representatives from Differently Abled Employees'
Action Committee, AP StateVikalangula Hakkula Sadhana Samiti, Vikalang Maha
Sanghathan,
Employees' Welfare Association for Persons with Disabilities and other
organisations.
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