Beggars Rehabilitation Scheme: Stalin to take up father’s long-fought cause?
Karunanidhi first spoke about the issues of beggars in his film Parasakthi in 1952, wherein he stressed on their empowerment.
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CHENNAI: Five decades ago, the late DMK president M Karunanidhi during his second tenure as Chief Minister, launched the Beggars Rehabilitation Scheme on his 48th birthday and vowed to eliminate beggary in Tamil Nadu in five to seven years time, while also ordering the construction of six homes at important towns to rehabilitate leprosy-affected beggars in the first phase.
However, over a period, the scheme lost its momentum and now the number of beggars in the State have increased. With Chief Minister MK Stalin now reviewing the functioning of all departments on a day to day basis ahead of the budget session and initiating more impetus to developmental schemes as well as social reform initiatives, several activis
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May 15, 2021, 16:25 PM IST
Hyderabad: At a time when everything from medicines to oxygen concentrators are being imported to save a huge number of COVID-19 patients in the country, an unemployed graduate from Telangana has come up with an interesting mask. Presently called as ‘Electric Nebulizer Mask’.
This unique mask has some interesting features and can be worn while on the move as well.
24-year-old K.Shiva Nagaraju is from Deshmukhi village in Yadadri district of Telangana, nearly 80 kilometres from capital Hyderabad.
“The regular masks, although very useful, have some problems too. Like if you wear it for a longer period then there will be some discomfort in breathing. Then there is sweating issue and so on. But in our ‘Electric Nebulizer Mask’ we have an IV pipe and filters which stop dust particles and inhaling, and exhaling is bit comfortable, explained Shiva.
Mentally ill man from Nepal sent back after recovery
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A 33-year-old man from Nepal who came in search of a job in the country turned mentally ill and was rehabilitated at a centre in the city and after recovery was sent to his native country on Friday.
S. Suman of Lakshmi Bazaar in Gorkha district in Nepal along with a few others were brought to the country by a middleman for job in Kerala in 2019. However, he got separated from his team members while travelling in the train and landed in the State.
In February, 2020, he arrived at the Erode Railway Junction, with severe injuries and was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital. He was mentally ill and interaction by psychiatrists revealed that he was assaulted by the public at various places after which he boarded the train to Erode.