NEW DELHI: Two years ago, the Narendra Modi government faced the opposition's barbs of being a "suit-boot ki sarkar" or a government of the well-heeled. As it turns three, the BJP-led NDA government has turned the rhetoric around by putting its stamp on social welfare schemes while reaching out to the poorest of the poor.
FOR THE DIFFERENTLY-ABLED
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) had always been helping the differently-abled, providing assistive devices to visually impaired and physically disabled through Assistance to Disabled Persons for Purchase/Fitting of Aids/Appliances (ADIP) scheme. But under the Modi government the scheme has become a sought-after initiative, with members of Parliament cutting across party lines beseeching the little-known DEPwD to hold special camps in their constituencies.
In the past three years, the government has held 4,718 camps benefiting 6.40 lakh beneficiaries under this scheme, up from a mere 37 camps in 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Awanish Awasthi, who spearheaded the turnaround of the scheme between 2014 and 2017 as joint secretary at DEPwD at the time, told ET, "The scheme was already there. We used to release funds to NGOs to provide assistive devices. But the approach to the scheme changed.
Source:-TOI
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FOR THE DIFFERENTLY-ABLED
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) had always been helping the differently-abled, providing assistive devices to visually impaired and physically disabled through Assistance to Disabled Persons for Purchase/Fitting of Aids/Appliances (ADIP) scheme. But under the Modi government the scheme has become a sought-after initiative, with members of Parliament cutting across party lines beseeching the little-known DEPwD to hold special camps in their constituencies.
In the past three years, the government has held 4,718 camps benefiting 6.40 lakh beneficiaries under this scheme, up from a mere 37 camps in 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Awanish Awasthi, who spearheaded the turnaround of the scheme between 2014 and 2017 as joint secretary at DEPwD at the time, told ET, "The scheme was already there. We used to release funds to NGOs to provide assistive devices. But the approach to the scheme changed.
Source:-TOI
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