PANAJI: The Socorro panchayat has launched ‘Divyangsnehi’, a scheme aimed at helping the disabled purchase necessary appliances and aids.
After a suggestion by Guruprasad Pawaskar, the state commissioner for persons with disabilities, sarpanch Sandeep Manjrekar took up the issue and devised the scheme. In its budget estimate for 2022-23, the panchayat had included financial support for disabled people amounting to Rs 2 lakh to buy artificial aids and appliances under the ‘Divyangsnehi’ scheme. This was approved at the gram sabha meeting on February 27.
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