As many as 200 people got registered themselves on the third day of special 10-day long camp that started on June 4.The third camp was held in Modal Gram Community Centre, Kochar Market that comes under Ludhiana West constituency.The camp was inaugurated by Punjab Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu and Member of Parliament (MP) Ravneet Singh Bittu.In these camps, the wheelchairs, tricycles, hearing aid, speaking devices, artificial limbs and other things will be distributed among them at free of cost.Cabinet Minister said that this is a unique initiative of state government to provide a healing touch to the people with special needs. He told that needy people must come forward and register themselves in these camps so that necessary assistance could be given to them.He added that these camps are being organized by Social Security, Women and Child Development department with the support of district administration.
Meanwhile, he also told special awareness campaign in the district is being carried out to apprise the people about this exercise so that they could avail the benefit of this drive.Exhorting the people to take full benefits of these camps, he said that any person from the district could come to this camp and added that this would give much-needed relief to the needy people.Meanwhile, MP Bittu told that experts of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) will prepare a list of things after assessing the extent the need of such people who will take part in the camps and all these things will be given to them within three months.Revealing about the schedule of the camps, Bittu said that on June 7, the camp will be held in King Palace, Basti Jodhewal (Ludhiana Central), on June 8 in Ludhiana North, on May 11 in GLADA community centre (Ludhiana East), on June 12 in Gill Garden Resorts (Gill Constituency), on June 13 in Dr. Ambedkar Bhawan (Dakha Constituency) and the last camp will be held in Vimal Muni Hall, Sadar Market, Jagraon on June 14 in Jagraon constituency.