Telangana govt striving hard for welfare of PwDs: Puvvada

Khammam: Telangana government has been striving hard for the welfare and growth of persons with disabilities (PwDs), stated Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar. The Minister along with Telangana Vikalangula Cooperative Corporation Chairman, K Vasudeva Reddy and District Collector VP Gautham distributed physical aids and assistive devices worth Rs 43.97 lakhs to PwDs here on Saturday. […]

Khammam: Telangana government has been striving hard for the welfare and growth of persons with disabilities (PwDs), stated Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar.

The Minister along with Telangana Vikalangula Cooperative Corporation Chairman, K Vasudeva Reddy and District Collector VP Gautham distributed physical aids and assistive devices worth Rs 43.97 lakhs to PwDs here on Saturday.

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As many as 39 persons were given retrofitted vehicles and 17 persons were given battery operated wheelchairs free of cost. Speaking on the occasion, Ajay Kumar said the government provided the vehicles to help PwDs to attend to their daily needs.

Steps would be taken to provide electric vehicles to PwDs. Unlike in other States in the country, around five lakh PwDs across Telangana were getting Rs 3016 monthly Aasara pension and the government was spending around Rs 1,800 crore per year for the purpose.

Priority was given to PwDs in the allocation of double bedroom houses with five per cent reservation. In addition to that, houses were also being allotted to them in open category on the ground floor, the minister informed.

There are around 24, 000 persons with disabilities in the district, of whom over 6000 persons live in Khammam city. Committed efforts were being made to extend benefits of all government welfare schemes to them, he noted.

The government was spending around Rs 150 crore per month on pensions for PwDs. In the past beneficiaries used to bear 70 per cent of the cost of the vehicles given to them. But Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao with an humanitarian approach decided to give the vehicles free of cost, Vasudeva Reddy said.

Four percent reservation was given to PwDs in government jobs. The government would soon issue job notifications and the corporation would provide free coaching to them to appear for job tests. Rs 5 crore would be released towards subsidised loans, he added.

Mayor P Neeraja, SUDA Chairman B Vijay Kumar, AMC Chairman D Laksshmi Prasanna, District Welfare Officer Ch Sandhya Rani, DRDO Vidyachandana, DPRO Yakub Pasha and others were present.

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