Jamshedpur has proved more able to provide succour to the disabled.
The state has appreciated the single-window aid system for the disabled in Jamshedpur run by a parents' association, deciding to replicate it in Ranchi and Dhanbad.
At a meeting of the state-level co-ordination committee for disability in Ranchi on Thursday, delegates said that the single-window ' which focuses on identifying, certifying and rehabilitating persons with disabilities ' in Dhatkidih, Jamshedpur, since 2006, was a fuss-free system.
The single-window is simply a jargon for a camp on the 15th of every month held by Parents' Association of Mentally Handicapped, Jamshedpur, where health check-ups, certification and distribution of wheelchairs, crutches, hearing aids and others, are carried out.
The name of the outfit, which is the city's nodal agency partner of National Trust, that functions under the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment, is misleading because although mental patients come for check-ups, the physically handicapped benefit the most. But name aside, the outfit does good work.
"We get more than 100 beneficiaries every month at the camp. It prevents the disabled from running about here and there for free services," summed up P. Babu Rao, secretary of PAMHJ.
Sudha Lhila, executive director of Deepshikha, the nodal agency of National Trust in Jharkhand, said the system was useful. "Ideally every block should have a single window to reduce the harassment of the disabled," she said.
Satish Chandra, state disability commissioner, said the process would be speeded up. "A single-window system across districts will save the disabled a lot of trouble. Ranchi and Dhanbad are on our priority now," he said. The commission was creating a database of disabled children.
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