The inability of disabled persons to aptly match the changing situations in their family circle and communities, as well as their lack of proper scope for esteemed survival, are some of the basic reasons that inspired BAHIRKANCHALI SRISTI EDUCATIONAL SOCEITY to plan for such an endeavor. It focuses on the participatory development of differently-abled persons with scope for building an enabling environment alongside a process of social inclusion and mainstreaming.

Keeping in view the above situation, the organization has set up one District Disability Rehabilitation Centre at the Old DHH building, Dhenkanal, catering to the basic needs of people with disabilities and their family members and community on their rights, welfare schemes of the central and state government in favor of PwDs to bring them into the mainstream of society to participate and enjoy benefits from development initiatives at the local level. The program started in February 2021 with a formal inauguration by the Collector and District Magistrate in the presence of district-level officers.

The organization has engaged both technical and supportive staff in the program and provided the equipment to the Centre for the benefit of the PwDs with due facilities. The Centre is now fully functional and rendering services and facilities to the needy PwDs in a single-window system with Orthopaedic, Physiotherapy, Hearing Impaired & Speech practice, and welfare wings. Some of the detailed actions of the Centre are:

• Survey & identification of persons with disabilities through camp approach
• Facilitation of disability certificates, bus passes, and other concession/facilities for persons with disabilities; assisting in the issuance of Unique Disability Identity Card (UDID) to divyangjan in the District
• Awareness generation for encouraging and enhancing prevention of disabilities, early detection, and intervention
• Early intervention and facilitating insurance schemes launched by the National Trust/Department for Divyangjan
• Assessment of the need for assistive devices, provision/fitment of assistive devices, follow-up/repair of assistive devices
• Therapeutic services e.g. Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, etc.
• Referral and arrangement of surgical correction through Govt. & Charitable institutes
• Arrangement of loans for self-employment, through banks & other financial institutions
• Counseling of persons with disabilities, their parents & family members