To observe the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability (SSEPD) Department organised the “Disability Awareness Film Festival” at the Idcol Auditorium and sports and cultural meet Utsav-2017 for the specially-abled here on December 1 and 2.
Inaugurating the meet, SSEPD Minister Prafulla Samal said it is important to integrate disabled persons in the mainstream of society. Disabled persons are often discriminated against and that is never an ideal condition.
Society must take adequate steps to involve persons with disabilities in the mainstream activities in social, political, economic and cultural sphere, he added.