NGO provides equipment to 103 disabled

The Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS), maker of the world famous Jaipur Foot, equipped 103 physically challenged persons with artificial limbs, hearing aids, wheel chairs, crutches and walking sticks in the border villages of Dagbella under Kupwara district of Kashmir.

The BMVSS in association with 5/5 Gorkha Rifles set up the special rehabilitation camp Tangdhar area after crossing a pass located at a height of 13,000ft recently. At the camp site, the morning temperature used to be -7 degrees centigrade and the night temperatures dropped to -20 degrees.

Organized under the programme "Manzil Aapki, Kadam Hamare", the camp was meant to rehabilitate civilians who lost their limbs or had become hearing impaired because of enemy bombing.

According to the second in-command of the Gorkha Rifles Sajal Shukla, the camp at the Tangdhar area under the jurisdiction of Kupwara district of Jammu & Kashmir is one of the remotest places in the vicinity of LOC. The area has a large number of villages adjoining the border and has historically witnessed harassment due to enemy firing, shelling and bombardment. The area has evidence of heavy causalities caused due to accidental blasts of war-drifted mines and unexploded explosives (UXOs).

The BMVSS sent a team of six technicians headed by Latif Pandit, the works manager of the BMVSS, Srinagar branch. The technicians braving heavy snowfall and low temperature reached the camp site and equipped the disabled with the artificial limbs, hearing aids, crutches, tricycles and walking sticks.

"The Samiti will always be ready to provide equipment and manpower support to the armed forces wherever they hold such camps to benefit the civilians," Dr Mehta, the founder and the chief patron of BMVSS said.

 

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