{"id":20153,"date":"2014-08-15T22:13:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=20153"},"modified":"2014-08-15T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:43:18","slug":"side-wheeled-scooters-distributed-to-physically-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/side-wheeled-scooters-distributed-to-physically-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Side-wheeled scooters distributed to physically challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its \u2018Sahayahastam\u2019 project, Trivandrum City Corporation has provided scooters to selected beneficiaries with physical disability. Health and Family Welfare Minister V S Sivakumar inaugurated the programme at Corporation Office.<\/p>\n<p>Corporation provided 35 scooters with side-wheels to beneficiaries in general category and 12 to beneficiaries under SC category. The civic body also distributed 5 wheelchairs and 2 tricycles during the function.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A total of 115 beneficiaries eligible for sidewheel-assisted scooters were identified for the year 2013-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The remaining 67 scooters will be distributed after Onam said the Welfare Standing Committee Chairman of the Corporation Palayam Rajan.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiaries were shortlisted after respective ward committees recommended a list of persons to the Corporation. The shortlisted people are interviewed and a fitness test is carried out before a medical board. Only people from economically poor background having physical disability above 40% are given the aid. The council passed a resolution approving \u2018Sahayahastam\u2019 scheme for the year 2014-15 last week.<\/p>\n<p>City Mayor K Chandrika, MLA V Sivankutty, Deputy Mayor Happykumar and Palayam Rajan were also present at the inaugural ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its \u2018Sahayahastam\u2019 project, Trivandrum City Corporation has provided scooters to selected beneficiaries with physical disability. Health and Family Welfare Minister V S Sivakumar inaugurated the programme at Corporation Office. Corporation provided 35 scooters with side-wheels to beneficiaries in general category and 12 to beneficiaries under SC category. The civic body also distributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-20153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}