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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Five-day workshop begins to create awareness on disabilities MEDIA PERSONS SENSITIZED ON DAY-1

GANGTOK, 07 Oct: National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped, (NIMH) under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, is organizing a five-day state level workshop on ‘Awareness Creation About Disabilities’  at the conference hall of Social Justice, Empowerment and Welfare Department, Lumsey, 5th Mile, Tadong.
The state-level workshop began today with media persons in the state being sensitized on disabilities. Lecturer in Psychology, NIMH, Secunderabad, Dashrath Choudhary, highlighting the objectives of NIMH stated that its aim is to develop human resource through research and development, service model, documentation and dissemination, consultancy, extension and out-reach programmes. NIMH has three Regional Centres viz. Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and is also planning to start a new Regional Centre in Sikkim, he added.
Regarding the programme, he mentioned that this time NIMH is organizing five-day awareness programme starting with the media personnel. The main objective of the programme is to create mass awareness on disabilities.  On the second day, the programme will be meant for policy makers of the State Government followed by teachers and students of Colleges and Schools on the third day. The fourth day’s programme will be held for professionals working in the field of disability rehabilitation and the last day for the grass root level workers and Anganwadi workers.
Mr Choudhary also added that NIMH is collecting and sharing data on disabilities all over the world. “This is our fifth visit to Sikkim and we hope to conduct more workshops in the days to come”, he said.
Clinical Assistant [Psychologist], NIMH, Kolkata, Aditi Biswas spoke on the activities planned for Sikkim for 2013-14 while Lecturer in Special Education, NIMH, Kolkata, Jayati Mitra spoke on special education. Occupational Therapist, NIMH, Kolkata, Santosh Shetty spoke on the role of psychology and occupational therapy for people with mental disabilities.
National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped established in the year 1984 at Manovikasnagar, Secunderabad (Andhra Pradesh). The institute endeavors to excel in building capacities to empower persons with mental retardation.

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