To ensure students with blindness connected with information technology, the Department of Social Security and Empowerment of PwDs (SSEPD) has taken an initiative of providing them laptops free of cost.
Accordingly, a total of 107 laptops were provided to such students at a function held at the VRC for Handicapped (VRCH), Gandamunda here on Thursday.
Chief guest SSEPD and Woman and Child Development Minister Usha Devi said the new department has been created to have focused attention for rehabilitation and empowerment of PwDs in the State. The Government would take all initiatives for comprehensive development of PwDs, she added. VRCH Rehabilitation Officer Ram Kishor Sharma emphasised that a short-term orientation would be helpful to ensure optimum utilisation of given devices. SSEPD Department Principal Secretary Niten Chandra and Director Mansi Nimbhal also spoke.