Auxiliary Production Unit & Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre’ Laid at Nawada, Faridabad

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On 16^th June 2018, the Foundation of stone of “Auxiliary Production Unit and State-of-the-Art Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre” was laid by Manohar Lal, Chief Minister of Haryana and Krishan Pal Gurjar, Minister of State for Social Justice & Empowerment at an event at village Nawada, Tigaon (Ballabhgarh), Faridabad, Haryana.

Auxiliary Production Unit & Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre:
i. Foundation stone has been laid for the Auxiliary Production Unit & Artificial Limbs Fitting Centre of Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) under Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
ii. The differently abled people face a lot of difficulties to visit Kanpur to avail facilities of evaluation, measurements and fitment of assistive devices from ALIMCO headquarters at Kanpur.
iii. These services provided at the auxiliary centres in other areas will help differently abled people to cover lesser distance for receiving these devices.
iv. Setting up of this Centre at Faridabad would reduce long travel for differently abled people from Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
v. This centre will reinforce capacity of the Corporation, offer other rehabilitation services such as limbs fitting, disabled help centres, awareness generation about other schemes for empowerment of differently abled people.
vi. Facilities for filment of advanced Artificial Limbs, Manufacturing of Tricycle, Wheelchair, Motorized Tricycle, Walker, Crutches, and Walking Stick etc. will also be performed in this centre.

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