Gehlot lays foundation for Composite Regional Centre Nellore, Jan 3 (INN): Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot laid the foundation Stone for the Composite Regional Centre in Nellore of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. Union Minister for Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu was also present on the occasion.
The event marked the groundwork for the establishment of a state-of-the-art CRC at Venkatachalam in Nellore, which will be under the administrative control of National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped, Secunderabad - a National Institute under the Department of Empowerment of persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
The occasion also marked the inauguration of the 'Rehabilitation Services' of the Composite Regional Centre by Thaawarchand Gehlot. On this occasion 248 pre-identified beneficiaries were provided with aids and appliances manufactured by Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, during the public meeting at VRC Ground, Nellore. DEPwD conducts such camps regularly across the country to reach out to PwDs and equip them with state-of-the-art aids and appliances. The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister welcomed the move to establish this CRC in his state and emphasized that ALIMCO may open its regional centre in the state as well as the Department may take up the Sports Complex for PwDs at Vishakhapatnam.
As part of the achievement of the above objectives, the CRC-Nellore will take up training programmes which include long term and short term programmes, service activities which would include early detection and intervention, special education services, psycho-social rehabilitation, vocational training & employment, provision of mobility aids and assistive devices, social rehabilitation of senior citizens with disabilities..
AP Transport Minister Sidda Raghava Rao, Municipal Administration Minister Dr. P.Narayana, Social Welfare Minister Ravela Kishore Babu and senior officials were also present on the occasion.
News Posted: 3 January, 2016
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