Union Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thawarchand Gehlot on Tuesday praised the steps being taken for upliftment of disabled persons, senior citizens, and transgender community in Chhattisgarh.
The Minister had a brief halt at Swami Vivekananda Airport, Raipur, on his way back from Odisha tour.
During this brief stay, he met Special Secretary and Director of Social Welfare Dr Sanjay Alang and senior officials of the department. Social Welfare Department officials gifted Union Minister the paintings made by disabled children. The Union Minister was glad to receive the gift and appreciated the paintings made by special children, and said that their talent should exhibited in national-level fairs such as Pragato Ground, Surajkund.
He asked Commissioner (Disabilities) R Prasanna to send proposal in the context.
During the meeting, Prasanna requested Union Minister to establish national-level research and education centres for disabled in Chhattisgarh. He informed Gehlot about the State government's efforts for upliftment of disabled, senior citizens and third gender community, and said that national-level research and education centres will help in doing better work in this direction. Gehlot asked Prasanna to send proposal in the context to the Central Government. The Union Minister also praised all the activities and initiatives taken by State government in Chhattisgarh and said that the entire nation should come to know about these initiatives to motivate other states to follow the same. The Minister informed during the meeting that Central Government has got a dictionary of 3000 words prepared in sign language for hearing impaired people, which will be soon made available to all the states.