Social Welfare Minister Smt. Anila Bhendia inaugurated the departmental quarterly training session on Monday at the State Resource and Rehabilitation Center at Camp Raipur. Officers’ training program will be conducted from January to March 2021. Addressing the officials, Mrs. Bhendia said that the social welfare department is a people-connected department with intimacy and human spirit. The department has served the needy well during the lockdown in the Corona epidemic. Corona infection is not yet over, but we have to move fast with safety. Departmental training will prove to be helpful in this direction. On the occasion, he provided mortgaged tricycle to two PwDs, a normal tricycle to two PwDs and a marriage incentive of Rs 1 lakh to a PwD. Along with this, he distributed 6 smart phones to differently-abled students.
Smt. Bhendia said that with the guidance provided in the training, the officers and employees will be able to overcome the shortcomings and serve the destitute, differently-abled, persons of third gender, the disabled and the elderly. He said that like private works in Kovid, government work should also be done with caution. More and more PwDs should be provided with special disability identification certificates (UDID cards) by organizing camps in districts and block headquarters. Try to make card work through panchayats, so that people with disabilities can get the benefit of the schemes. This will make their future bright and family happy. He said that people of third gender should also be encouraged to move ahead with the mainstream.
