‘Anpu’ campaign to mainstream persons with intellectual disability

The Social Justice section is rolling retired a peculiar intensive run for mainstreaming persons with intelligence disablement (ID).

The ‘Anpu’ project, which is being implemented arsenic portion of efforts to marque the State disabled friendly, volition make consciousness successful nine astir intelligence disablement and marque interventions to code the difficulties faced by the intellectually challenged.

Various programmes volition beryllium implemented and services provided to the intellectually challenged arsenic portion of the project. These see their education, accomplishment development, and improving their employability.

Services specified arsenic conducting camps for providing Unique Disability ID (UDID) paper and taking steps to code cases related to ineligible guardianship of the intellectually challenged done adalats volition beryllium provided done Anpu. It envisages visits to their houses by National Service Scheme volunteers to make consciousness of and guarantee entree to programmes developed for them. It volition follow a rights-based attack to guarantee they are not isolated successful society.

Self-help groups (SHGs) volition beryllium formed nether Kerala State Differently Abled Welfare Corporation Ltd. to supply enactment for persons with ID truthful that they summation assurance astir their abilities to pb self-sufficient and productive lives. These SHGs volition supply a level for selling of products made by those with ID and a venue to showcase their creativity.

Minister for Social Justice R. Bindu, successful a message, said the run volition assistance bring astir a alteration successful societal attitudes towards the otherwise abled and supply them assistive mechanisms and support.

A handbook containing schemes and services of the authorities volition besides beryllium made disposable arsenic portion of Anpu.