Implement welfare schemes for handicapped, says Kokje

Saturday, March 17, 2007, 15:06 [IST]

Shimla, Mar 11 (UNI) Himachal Pradesh Governor V S Kokje has stressed the need for coordinated efforts for effective implementation of welfare schemes for handicapped.

Disability was a social problem and is a challenge that could only be faced effectively with the cooperation from the society, he said, while speaking at a state level workshop on disability organised jointly by Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies and Rehabilitation Council of India here.

Mr Kokje said all sections of the society should cooperate in solving the problem as government alone would not be able to do so.

Several welfare programmes for the handicapped were being implemented at the national and international levels for changing attitude of the society towards them.

UNI

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