Udaipur-based philanthropic group Narayan Seva Sansthan’s (NSS) president, Prashant Agrawal, has bagged a national award for the empowerment of differently-abled persons with the activities of fitting artificial limbs and corrective surgeries. The NSS has been engaged in the rehabilitation of differently-abled persons since 1985.
President Droupadi Murmu gave away the award at a ceremony marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on December 3. Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Virendra Kumar presided over the function.
The NSS has carried out activities such as the establishment of residential schools and vocational rehabilitation centres for differently abled persons, besides distributing assistive devices to them. The philanthropic group has so far fitted about 40,000 persons, who lost their limbs in accidents, with artificial limbs and performed 4.45 lakh successful corrective surgeries on differently-abled persons.
