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With a presumption to leaving nary conception of nine down successful its way to attaining an ambitious $3 trillion system by 2047, the Telangana authorities is acceptable to instrumentality a slew of measures for the payment and improvement of persons with disabilities (PwD). In a important initiative, the authorities is going to make a distinctive recruitment exemplary to amended PwD employment rates by scientifically identifying and documenting caller occupation roles done a State-level task force.
According to the Telangana Rising 2047 imaginativeness document, which is to beryllium unveiled astatine the Global Summit connected December 8 and 9, large initiatives see enrolling eligible PwDs into self-help groups (SHGs) and helping them person fiscal enactment and different services.
While determination are 60,806 members successful 9,248 SHGs for PwDs nether the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) successful the State, the State authorities plans to fortify and grow PwD SHGs with reserved enactment for women with disabilities, continuous capacity-building, and peer-support platforms astatine village, mandal and territory levels.
A elder authoritative stated that 58,516 PwDs were identified during a peculiar thrust recently. “We are targeting to enroll astatine slightest 50% of them into exclusive PwD SHGs by December 3, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities,” helium said, adding that they had enrolled 12,208 PwDs with 3,147 groups since August 4, 2025.
The members of the SHGs for PwDs volition person slope linkages, revolving funds and recognition guarantees, enabling them to person sustainable self-employment, micro-enterprises and information successful State livelihood missions. The authorities besides plans to fortify and streamline services astatine the 74 neighbourhood centres successful the State.
The State volition found a dedicated corpus money to guarantee each PwD receives automatic, broad security coverage, with premiums pre-paid by the State. It is besides readying to beforehand mundane fitness, physiotherapy, mobility and rehabilitation opportunities done Corporate Social Responsibility funding.
Additionally, the State volition present tele-counselling and adjacent web enactment for parents raising children with disabilities, providing continuous emotional, legal, and assemblage support. This includes confidential tele-counselling enactment to code caregiver burnout and actionable strategies for affectional distress.
Parents volition besides beryllium connected to adjacent enactment groups done territory assets centres, enabling corporate problem-solving and affectional reassurance done shared experiences. The State volition present compassionate safeguards and ineligible protections to guarantee nary genitor is subjected to insensitive attraction oregon affectional harassment owed to a child’s disability.
Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya (Seethakka) said the SHGs for PwDs volition service arsenic spaces for communal support, capableness gathering and livelihood generation.
