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NGO all set to expand activities

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25,000 Self-Help-Groups of physically challenged exist in the State

LEADING LIGHTS: Two visually-challenged persons getting down a flight of steps after receiving light-weight, foldable walking sticks in Hyderabad on Thursday. Photo: D. Gopalakrishnan

HYDERABAD: The Development and Welfare Association of the Blind (DWAB), a voluntary organisation running a welfare facility for the visually-challenged in Nalgonda, has set up base in the State capital with a view to expanding its activities.

The premises of the voluntary organisation in Ramnagar was inaugurated by its honorary president and managing director, Sagar Cements, Sammidi Veera Reddy, on Thursday morning.

At a meeting later, the Commissioner for Disabled Welfare, R. Sundarvadan, said that under the Velugu Project, a sum of Rs. 150 crores had been allocated for a five-year programme.

In the first two years, Rs. 30 crores were spent and plans were being drawn up to utilise the remaining Rs. 120 crores in the next three years.

As of now, there were 25,000 self-help groups of physically-challenged people in the State and in 2005-06, the Government wanted to take it to 50,000, he said.

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