Disabled employment in limbo

Disabled choose private institutions/NGOs as the government suspends employment training programmes and shuts special employment exchanges. Disabled people are not getting jobs from the employment training program provided by the Department for the Empowerment of Differently abled and Senior Citizens (DWDSC). It has been suspended since 2018. The last training session provided to the disabled […]

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Prosthetics at the charity of NGOs in Bangalore

Amputees head towards NGOs due to shoddy prosthetics and orthotics in government hospitals. Amputees get artificial limbs from the NGOs working in the city due to the compromised quality and obsolescence of prosthetics in government hospitals. Neuro-myoelectric prosthesis covered under the Make in India campaign is still a pipe dream. Neuro-myoelectric prosthesis is the bionic […]

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BBMP vaccinates 13k dogs in July alone

BBMP has returned to working with NGOs to eradicate rabies. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) vaccinated 13,000 dogs and neutered 13,736 under the Anti-Rabies Vaccination (ARV) and Animal- Birth Control (ABC)  programme in July. BBMP officials said that they have nearly met their target.  BBMP initiated a massive rabies vaccination drive in July with […]

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NGOs become helpless due to COVID-19

The pandemic, subsequent lockdowns and lack of access to funds have hit NGOs in Hyderabad and Warangal.  Warangal: Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) are struggling to get the funding they need to help people. They are not getting enough donations during the pandemic and even the government schemes have not helped. Narsing Rao, who has been with […]

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