To provide opportunities, empower needy
In order to provide opportunities and empower the destitute, a ‘Kshymata Express’ was flagged off by district Collector K Sudarshan Chakravarthy here on Tuesday.
The bus in the first phase would go around 124 villages under 10 GPs of six blocks and provide services to 555 beneficiaries.
The bus, besides identifying the physically-challenged and providing services to them, would also provide services to transgenders, poverty-stricken people and senior citizens.
The vehicle carrying specialist doctors in physiotherapy, eye and ear would extend medical checkup facilities to the beneficiaries.
The programme would be conducted by the Bhadrak-based Centre for Rehabilitation Services and Researches.
The bus in the first phase will visit Sadar, Simulia, Soro, Khaira, Bahanaga and Nilgiri between July 17 and 30. ADM Sambit Nayak, DSSO Sandhyarani Singh, DIPRO Subash Nihal and other officials were present.