20 essential equipment for free to disabled

TNN / Updated: Jun 20, 2023, 09:04 IST

Delhi government on Monday said it would provide free equipment to people with disability under Sugamya Sahayak Yojana. The social welfare department has prepared a list of 20 types of essential equipment, it added.

NEW DELHI: Delhi government on Monday said it would provide free equipment to people with disability under Sugamya Sahayak Yojana. The social welfare department has prepared a list of 20 types of essential equipment, it added.

"The department will organise camps at different places to distribute the equipment. The people who have a disability of 40% or more will have to apply online and submit a certificate," said an official. The department will soon sign a five-year memorandum of understanding with Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India to implement the scheme.

The equipment will include motorised tri-cycles, smart sticks, folding active wheelchairs, artificial limbs, walking sticks, hearing aids, crutches, walkers and rollers and shorthand machines.