Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to reserve 5% of shops in its malls for physically challenged persons in the city, according to mayor Dayashankar Tiwari.
He said, “The civic body has also decided to dedicate Guru Govind Singh stadium in north Nagpur only for physically challenged people of the city. Besides, a gym in the name of Arjun and Dronacharya awardee Vijay Munishwar will be started for them.”
On Thursday, Tiwari chaired a meeting to take review on various projects and schemes for differently abled persons in the city. The mayor made provisions of Rs7.50 crore (sanctioned by the standing committee in its 2020-21 NMC budget) for differently abled persons under various beneficiary schemes for them.
According to the mayor, the idea came to his mind after many such persons informed him that several people have allegedly taken money from them to provide shops on footpaths under different schemes of the state government. “I have given directives to conduct an in-depth inquiry into their complaints and if we come across any of such persons who took money from them, police complaint will be filed,” he said.
Under one of the schemes, the NMC has decided to provide battery-operated tricycles to them by procuring the same from Nagpur-based companies, said the mayor. Earlier, the NMC had roped in a Kanpur-based company to provide battery-operated tricycles to the beneficiaries. “As the company did not have any repair centre in the city, beneficiaries faced a lot of hardships over maintenance of their tricycles,” he said.
He further said the NMC has also decided to give choices of three different battery-operated tricycles to the beneficiaries by putting them on display. Besides, audio-clipped on how to maintain the tricycles will also be provided to the beneficiaries, he said.
Similarly, the NMC has earmarked Rs25 lakh for deaf and mute for cochlear implant surgery. “An amount of Rs1 crore has been sanctioned for sponsoring them to participate in various sports in city, state, national and international level,” he said and added that the NMC would finance 75% of the money.
The NMC has also earmarked Rs50 lakh for mentally challenged, Rs50 lakh for different vocational courses, Rs2 crore for equipment for differently abled persons especially kids, he said.
The NMC will try to execute all these works before the end of this financial year (March 31), he said.
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