The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : Model code acts as deterrent for officials

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Thursday, Apr 29, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Model code acts as deterrent for officials

By Our Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA, APRIL 28. Polling is over but the model code of conduct, which is still in force, is acting as a deterrent by preventing officials from going about their work. The model code will be in force till the election process is completed. Over 100 tricycles are languishing at the District Rehabilitation Centre waiting to be distributed to the physically-handicapped beneficiaries.

In fact, the beneficiaries have been identified at disability `assessment camps' long before the election notification was issued. They have to be kept at the centre for at least another fortnight till the election process is completed. The District Rehabilitation Officer, T.Satya Kishore, said here on Wednesday that persons eligible for benefits were identified scientifically at assessment camps held in villages well in advance. The district centre, sponsored by the Central Government, was the apex body for 100 village rehabilitation workers (VRWs) and multi-purpose rehabilitation workers (MRWs) extending rehabilitation services to handicapped persons in 800 villages of 39 mandals in the district.

The primary objective of the centre was to provide intervention to the handicapped in the form of physiotherapy and surgery if necessary. The beneficiaries were also provided with aids, appliances, vocational education and were also assisted in finding suitable employment. Mr. Kishore said the entire waiting list of beneficiaries would be cleared with the distribution of these tricycles, once the poll-code ended. He said that there were only 11 such rehabilitation centres in the country, as the Central Government discontinued the scheme later. But the centres that were already set up were being continued, he said.

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