102 physically challenged persons get jobs at mela

DINDIGUL, India: For the first time, private companies offered jobs to 102 physically disabled persons and persons with developmental disorders through a mega job mela organised by the district administration here recently. Most of them joined duty in the respective companies on Saturday itself.

While one disabled got supervisory job in a spinning mill to check quality of yarn, another one joined as warden and yet other one became a legal adviser to a spinning mill. Thirteen persons joined duty as computer operators and rest of the recruits as industrial workers.

The job mela also provided opportunity and financial assistance to enterprising disabled to set up their own businesses.

Collector M Vallalar, who inaugurated the mela, said that disabled persons and persons with developmental disorders tend to have special skills in a particular field. Opportunity should be given to such persons. They were not weak, as perceived by many.

Disabled persons should not hesitate to grab an opportunity. Over 40,000, out of a total population of 20 lakhs in the district, had some developmental disorder or other. They could not expose their skills owing to lack of opportunity, he said.

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http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/29/stories/2010032953760300.htm

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The Hindu

Warangal doctor turns saviour of girl, mother

Dr. Anjani Devi steps in to end the agony of a physically and mentally-challenged girl and her mother

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WARANGAL, India: Can being alive be a problem for anybody? For 22-year-old P Samatha, a physically and mentally-challenged girl, life was not just a problem but an unending ordeal. Her mother Puspha’s life was all the more distressing as her daughter had to be completely dependent on her virtually for everything. “She does not know when it is time for natural calls.

Her menstrual periods are erratic and I am vexed. She too pleads with us to put an end to this torture,” Pushpa said wailing.

Ms Puspha and her husband Kanakaiah went around hospitals pleading with doctors to perform hysterectomy on their daughter to relieve her from her agony. However, the doctors refused to do so and advised them to get her married. Relating her woes, Ms Puspha said it was practically impossible to perform her daughter’s marriage.

They approached noted gynaecologist P Anjani Devi of Kalyani Hospital, Hanamkonda, who too was reluctant to perform the operation. However, after listening patiently to the girl’s mother and the torture she was forced to face frequently, the doctor, after completing legal formalities, finally saved the mother and the daughter.

Favouring a debate on the issue, Dr. Anjani Devi said that of the 13 lakh physically-challenged persons in the State, the mentally challenged constitute about 3 lakh of which women in different age group constitute 50 per cent.

“There are hostels and schools for physically-challenged persons, but not for the mentally-challenged. “The government restrains from performing hysterectomy on unmarried girls, but cases such as these need special consideration,” she argued.

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http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/10/stories/2010031059300400.htm

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The Hindu