Karnataka - Gulbarga   

Minister sanctions financial help to people with disabilities

Special Correspondent

A number of people petition H.K. Kumaraswamy at his first Janata Darshan

GULBARGA: People in different age groups, including the physically challenged, waited patiently in a long queue in front of the Women and Child Welfare Office in Gulbarga city to present their petitions to the Minister for Women and Children Welfare, H.K. Kumaraswamy, during the first-ever Janata Darshan conducted by the department.

Taking more than two hours, the Minister listened to every person in the queue. He sanctioned financial help to many physically challenged persons on the spot.

For many like the physically challenged Jagannath, a graduate with additional qualifications of typewriting, shorthand and computer knowledge, the meeting with the Minister proved to be fruitful. Mr. Kumaraswamy gave on-the-spot instructions to the officials of the department to provide him employment immediately by outsourcing some work.

A large number of women representatives from self-help groups presented their petitions to the Minister.

SHGs' woes

They complained against bankers who, they said, made them run from pillar to post for loans. They said that officials of the department were indifferent to their problems.

Ambanna, who had lost his legs in a train accident a few years back, met the Minister and sought financial help to enable him to go to Mumbai to fix artificial limbs.

Ambanna said all his savings had gone into the treatment after the accident and now he was penniless. The Minister immediately ordered officials to release Rs. 15,000 from the relief fund available for distribution to physically challenged persons to enable Ambanna go to Mumbai.

Common halls

Most of the women representatives of self-help groups demanded that the Government construct common meeting halls for SHGs in the villages and buildings for anganwadi kendras.

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