Kerala to go differently abled-friendly: Minister
The Hindu
Varam 2021 Award presented to K.V. Rabia
Minister for Higher Education and Social Justice R. Bindu has said that efforts will be made to convert Kerala into a differently abled-friendly State.
“The government is duty-bound to ensure the welfare and rehabilitation of the differently abled,” she said while inaugurating a gathering of the differently abled at Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University at Tirur on Saturday.
The eighth edition of the gathering was titled ‘Varam’. The Minister presented the Varam 2021 Award to K.V. Rabia, a differently abled who had circumvented her disabilities to become an ambassador of letters during the literacy movement in the State. Mr. Bindu said Ms. Rabia’s services to woman empowerment in the last three decades were commendable.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.