Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari on February 20 laid the Foundation Stone of the world’s largest and unique Divyang Park – Anubhuti Inclusive Park in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Key points
- In 2016, the central government passed the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act for the rights of persons with disabilities.
- He said this law is to give the disabled the right to live with dignity.
- Taking initiative under this, the Central Government has created some Divyang Parks in South India and Madhya Pradesh.
- In this series, this ‘Anubhuti Inclusive Park’ is being built for disabled children and general citizens in Pardi campus of Nagpur.
- Instead of sympathy, this park will show empathy, hence this park has been named Anubhuti Divyang Park.
- Through this park the message of inclusion will reach not only in the country but also in the whole world.
- The park will have adapted facilities for all 21 types of disabilities.
- It will have facilities like touch and smell garden, hydrotherapy unit, water therapy, independent room for mentally challenged children, mother.
