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Odisha SSEPD Dept Inks Mou With Sightsavers India For empowerment of PwDs

in State News November 11, 2023 Comments Off on Odisha SSEPD Dept Inks Mou With Sightsavers India For empowerment of PwDs 1,144 Views

Bhubaneswar:11/11/23: Odisha Government looks forward to productive outcomes through different collaborations and convergence with other Departments, Civil Service Organisations, said Ashok Chandra Panda, Minister, of Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (SSEPD).

Joining the MoU signing event in Loka Seva Bhawan, Panda said that collaborative partnership is being encouraged by the Department for better results and broader reach across the State.

An MoU was signed between the SSEPD Department, Govt. of Odisha and Sightsavers India, a national-level development organisation working for the empowerment of PwDs. The bilateral MoU will be in force for 3 years. Within the collaborative partnership, technical support will be provided at both State and district levels in the fields of preparing the PwD database, skill development programmes and strengthening PwD’s livelihood aspects.

Principal Secretary, SSEPD Department, Bishnupada Sethi assured the government’s cooperation in all activities envisaged in the MoU. He emphasised that community participation should be adhered to in the welfare programmes in all convergence efforts.

Sightsavers India will actively support SSEPD in sensitizing stakeholders, facilitating self-defence training, establishing a computer training centre and collaborating on inclusive eye health services. The partnership aligns with SDG for 2030, focusing on the inclusion of disabilities in various targets and indicators.

Dillip Kumar Ray, Special Secretary and other senior officers of the Department were present on the occasion while Sanyaashee Behera, Deputy Secretary, SSEPD and Prasanna Kumar, Director (Programme Operations), Sightsavers India were the signatories in the MoU.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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