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T.M. Thomas Isaac THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac has promised that the Left Democratic Front government will provide a substantially larger allocation than before in the next State budget for taking care of mentally challenged children. Inaugurating a ‘corporate social responsibility cell’ of the Kerala Financial Corporation (KFC) here on Wednesday, Dr. Isaac said there was indeed a big contradiction in the government’s attitude to the mentally challenged children. While the government was providing free education to children with normal physical and mental abilities, the less fortunate, who needed all the help and affection society could provide them, received very little attention. “Perhaps it could be that the government’s attention falls only on those who indulge in collective bargaining. The responsibility of taking care of mentally challenged children is entirely left to their parents. Something is terribly wrong with the attitude of our society,” Dr. Isaac said. He said there were more than 75,000 such children in the State. Just over 300 institutions existed in the State at present to help them with education and training to confront life. These institutions could altogether accommodate hardly 7,000 children. No help reached more than 90 per cent of them. The KFC’s ‘corporate social responsibility cell’ would, to start with, adopt the children of Bal Vikas, an institution for the mentally challenged run by a trust set up in the name of the late P.R.S. Pillai. KFC Managing Director P.T. Nandakumar said the KFC was perhaps the first State public sector institution to open a corporate social responsibility cell. Social Welfare Minister P.K. Sreemathy, MLAs V.Sivankutty and N. Rajan, Bal Vikas Director Rajam Pillay and the president of Kerala Small Scale Industries Association I.A. Peter attended the function.
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