Kishtwar 17/07/2025
Social Welfare Department Kishtwar in Collaboration with Artificial Limbs Corporation of India (ALIMCO), a public sector enterprise functioning under the control of the Ministry of Social Justice and empowerment Govt of India today organised a Distribution camp under Assistance to Disabled Persons (ADIP) scheme and Rashtriya Vayushri Yojna (RVY)here at BDO office Paddar.
Tehsildar Paddar,Vijay Kumar Gupta graced the occasion.
The programme was organised under the Guidance of Pankaj Kumar Sharma,JKAS Deputy Commissioner Kishtwar and Dr.Amit Kumar JKAS, Sub Divisional Magistrate Paddar and overall supervision of District Social Welfare Officer Kishtwar, Zubair Ahmed Lone (JKAS).
During the said event different aids and appliances were distributed among 67 beneficiaries identified during the assessment camps organised earlier in Paddar which includes the prosthetic aid Wheelchairs Adult
and small, CP Chair, Hearing Aid, MSIED kit, Smart Cane, Smart Phone, Daisy Players, Braille Kit, Crutches Walking Sticks Rolator Callipers Artificial Limbs, knee braces, lumbo sacral belts, silicon foam cushions, smart phones for visually impaired peraons, etc.
The main objective of the scheme is to assist the needy disabled persons and senior citizens by providing durable, sophisticated and scientifically manufactured, modern standard prosthetic aid and
appliances to promote physical social, psychological rehabilitation of persons with disabilities and senior citizens by reducing the effects of disabilities and at the same time enhance their economic potential.
Assistive devices were given to persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and Senior citizens with an aim to improve their independent functioning and to arrest the extent of disability and occurrence of secondary
disability.
The event was organised by Rajesh Sharma, TSWO Paddar,and attended by Tushar Chowdhary, Audiologist and team from ALIMCO, Mohali.