Tricycles distributed to disabled

Siddipet: Minister T Harish Rao participated in various programmes here on Tuesday. He launched the Tiffin-Tuition programme for the Classes 6-10 at government girls school. Speaking on the occasion, he said that parents should change the way they think.

Boys should be sensitised to respect women, he added. Later, the minister distributed tricycles to the disabled at a programme organised on the occasion of International Day for the Persons with Disabilities.

He called upon the people to treat the disabled on a par with others. He promised to set up a welfare board with District Collector as its president, apart from a fitness, physiotherapy, skill development centre at a cost of Rs 20 lakh. He announced double-bedroom houses for them on ground floor. He also gave away 200 mopeds.