Camp to be held in Thane district on January 18 to distribute 300 prosthetic limbs

A voluntary organisation has said that it volition clasp a campy connected Sunday (January 18, 2026) astatine Dombivali successful Maharashtra’s Thane territory to supply prosthetic limbs to astir 300 individuals escaped of cost.

It said, “The assistive devices are auto-foldable and user-friendly, and are besides fractional the value of the accepted ones. The limbs are peculiarly utile successful agrarian regions arsenic they let radical with disabilities and amputees to execute regular activities specified arsenic walking, running, swimming, jumping, driving a bike, and farming,” it said.

“The campy volition beryllium held by the Bharat Vikas Parishad successful collaboration with the Divyang Kendra, Pune. The Kendra, which has been operational for 25 years, has already provided artificial limbs to 25,000 persons,” said 1 of its officials.