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Department of Social Welfare, Women & Child Development to Organize Assessment Camp for PwDs

Chandigarh, 26thth July, 2016:  It has always been endeavor of the Social Welfare, Women & Child Development Department to give focused attention to different policy issues and keeping a meaningful thrust on the activities aimed for the welfare and empowerment of the Persons with Disabilities. The Department has been focusing to cover all the persons with probable disability by conducting door to door survey and identify PwDs who need Disability Certificate, Aid & Appliances.


The Department is also providing logistics for such identified PwDs and facilitating them in getting disability identity cards so that they can be linked with the benefits being provided under different social security schemes. Now, the Social Welfare, Women & Child Development, Chandigarh is organizing  an Assessment Camp for PwDs in collaboration with Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), a Central Public Sector Enterprise. In this camp, assessment for the Aids & Assistive devices required for the PwDs shall be made be it for locomotors devices, eye and ear etc. This camp is scheduled to be held on 29-07-2016 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Aasha Kiran Building, Sector 46, Near KUC Hospital, Chandigarh. And all the PwDs having disability certificate and income less than 15000/- p.m. are eligible for availing this benefit.

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