21-05-2025
Minister distributes assistive devices, flags off mobile medical units in Mandya
Mandya: District minister
N Cheluvarayaswamy
distributed various departmental benefits on the premises of the zilla panchayat on Wednesday.
Under the department for the empowerment of differently abled and senior citizens, a total of 50 assistive devices were distributed to specially-abled individuals.
These included 13 motorised tricycles, 11 battery-operated wheelchairs, 15 hearing aids, 4 manual wheelchairs, 2 tricycles, 4 crutches, and 2 walkers.
The minister encouraged the recipients to make the best use of the equipment.
To provide health checkups and treatment for construction and other building workers, three Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) vehicles were sanctioned for the district by the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board.
The minister flagged off these units. Each vehicle will have a team of six members, including a doctor, general nursing and midwifery, ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife), lab technician, assistants, and driver.
These units will travel to locations with a high number of construction workers or as per the department's route map to conduct health checkups and provide necessary treatments to workers and their dependents.
To promote knowledge acquisition among children and the public, the govt launched libraries in an additional 255 villages in the district. Today, the minister symbolically distributed books worth Rs 2 lakh to each of these new libraries. To aid in tax collection at gram panchayats, the zilla panchayat procured 101 Android POS (Point of Sale) machines. The minister handed over these machines to gram panchayat officials and instructed bill collectors to use them efficiently.
The horticulture department will organise a mango and jackfruit fair and plant market 2025 from May 26 to 28 in front of the office of the deputy director of horticulture. The district minister released the event poster. The fair will focus on the sale of naturally ripened, carbide-free mangoes and jackfruits directly from farmers to consumers.
