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Hellen Keller awards given away

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDAPAH June 27. The Joint Collector, G. Jayalakshmi, on Friday exhorted disabled students not to feel let down by their handicap but progress with determination.

Speaking after inaugurating the 123th birth anniversary of Helen Keller at the Helen Keller's High School for the Deaf here, she urged the parents to admit their disabled children in special schools and equip them to live with confidence in society.

The handicapped students should be imparted education and encouraged to take up co-curricular activities such as sports, music and poetry, she said. The backlog posts earmarked for the handicapped were filled up. She lauded the school for imparting education to the deaf in the backward Rayalaseema region.

The Assistant Director of Handicapped Welfare, Z.G.F. Stephenson, said 364 disabled persons were extended loans through several banks in the district, besides sanctioning pensions to 1,761 handicapped persons and scholarships to 80 mentally retarded children. A sum of Rs. 3 lakhs was being spent for the rehabilitation, he added. He assured sanction of a marriage incentive of Rs. 3,000 to 20 couples. Three hundred disabled persons were given tricycles and a loan of Rs. 3,000 each was being given to enable them to set up STD booths, the AD said.

The Director of A.P. Vikalangula Corporation, K. Venkatarami Reddy, said the parents were unable to tackle their visually retarded children and should join them in the special school, where in the teachers would take their care patiently.

The principal-cum-coordinator of the high school, P. Dowlat Khan, said the awards would be given on Helen Keller's birth anniversary every year and exhorted the disabled students to achieve good marks.

He said the 10th batch of SSC students passed out of the school. A diploma course in special education was launched in 1997-98, B.Ed. through distance education in 2002 and diploma course in audio-metric technician was started this year, he said.

The Lions Club president, K. Janardhana Rao, stressed the need for vocational education to handicapped to make them self-sufficient. The Joint Collector and other guests gave away Helen Keller Pratibha awards and merit certificates to handicapped students who topped in the seventh class and SSC examinations. A teacher of the school, Masooda Begum, proposed a vote of thanks.

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