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Shun inferiority complex, Tummala tells disabled
Physically challenged children and youth should avoid having inferiority complex and instead focus on what best they can do for survival through education and work, Roads & Buildings Minister Tummala Nageshwar Rao observed at a programme organised here on Saturday to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Hyderabad: “Physically challenged children and youth should avoid having inferiority complex and instead focus on what best they can do for survival through education and work, Roads & Buildings Minister Tummala Nageshwar Rao observed at a programme organised here on Saturday to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and Animal Husbandry Minister Talasani Srinivas Yadav were among the dignitaries present at the programme.
Tummala said physically challenged persons should not feel cornered as they could excel in every field by making proper use of the schemes introduced by the government.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was doing his best to provide succor to physically disabled persons, he said.
The State government had been implementing schemes specifically to benefit this category of people, the Minister said. In addition to earmarking Rs 46.36 lakh for their welfare, the government had sanctioned over Rs 2,854 crore to 437 such persons in the State.
He exhorted the physically disabled to make use of the schemes and programmes, considering that Rs 422.21 lakh had been sanctioned for 729 persons with disabilities under the Financial Rehabilitation Programme.
The KCR government had been offering Rs 1,500 as monthly pension for 4,57,087 disabled persons and providing shelter to 2,258 persons in 20 hostels, he maintained.
The government had till date spent Rs 390.98 lakh for providing them hearing, walking and other aids.
To mark the International Day of Disabled Persons, he distributed aids worth Rs 50 lakh, including laptops for those studying higher education, artificial limbs, wheel chairs, sticks, bicycles and two-wheelers for jobholders.
