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UP to set up university for the handicapped

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Government has decided to set up a university for the handicapped in Lucknow and name it after the mother of senior BSP leader Satish Chandra Misra. The decision was taken at a meeting of the State cabinet presided over by the Chief Minister Mayawati here on Saturday.

Briefing newspersons later, Mayawati said the cabinet gave its approval to naming the upcoming university after Misra’s mother because of her efforts for the welfare of the handicapped, specially the blind, in her lifetime.

The university would be christened as Dr. Shakuntala Misra UP Viklang University.

Another important decision taken was hiking the pension of world war II veterans and their widows from Rs. 1000 to Rs. 2500 per month, she added. -- PTI

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