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Tuesday 30 April 2013

Triscooters, tricycles for differently-abled : Thiruvanthapuram

Very soon,  the beneficiaries of City Corporation’s ‘Sahayahastham’  project can avail of the tri-scooters and tri-cycles.  The triscooters, numbering 103, and tricycles, numbering 11, have been brought by Keltron,  which is the supplying agency.

 For purchasing  Mahindra Duro scooters and doing the registration,  Rs 58 lakhs has been spent. When the registration process of the tri-scooters is over,  it is planned to distribute these vehicles to the beneficiaries.

‘’ The beneficiaries aged between 18 and 50 years were chosen from differently-abled persons with an annual income of less than Rs 25,000.  The beneficiaries are strictly told not to sell or hand over the triscooters they had received,’’ said Palayam Rajan, welfare standing committee chairman.  Among the beneficiaries, 70 are men and 33 are women.

 To find out the beneficiaries,  a medical camp was conducted in March this year and a list was prepared.  A sum of Rs 71 lakh was set apart for the project for the differently abled. The project was announced in the previous budget of the Corporation. Other than tri-scooters and tri-cycles, computer system with ‘talking’ software are also to be distributed.

 Yet, the distribution of ‘talking’ computer system can be implemented only with the assistance of the sponsors.

 Four beneficiaries have been identified at the medical camp. ‘’The Corporation can provide an assistance of Rs 19,500 per person and the beneficiary contribution has to be Rs 10,000. The selected persons are not capable to pool in that much money and hence if only some sponsors come forward they can avail the benefit,’’  said Palayam Rajan.

 If sponsors turn up for providing financial assistance for ‘talking’ computers,  they can be given away along with the distribution of the vehicles, planned in two weeks’ time.


Source :  The New Indian Express ( 30th April 2013 )

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