Varsity for disabled in UP soon

The Government of Uttar Pradesh has decided to set up a university for disabled persons in Lucknow.

It was decided in a state cabinet meeting under the chairmanship the UP Chief Minister Mayawati. The cabinet said that the University would be named after eminent social worker Shakuntala Mishra, who devoted her entire life to the service of disabled persons.

The cabinet also decided that the construction work of boundary wall of the University would be done by the Disabled Welfare Department and the works of power and water supply and roads including safety measures by concerned departments from their own budgets.

It may be recalled that Shakuntala Mishra Memorial Service Trust Joint Managing Trustee Kalpana Mishra, in her letter to the Chief Minister in 2006, said the trust was serving in the interests of blinds and disabled persons and other related welfare works for the last 20 years through its own resources.

She informed that a policy was formulated for selection of institutions for construction of university by the state government for which her institution also moved an application.

After a prolonged discussion and after completion of all the requirements, the trust was selected by a high level committee headed by state Chief Secretary on May 8, 2008 and the responsibility for construction of the university was given over to the institution.

Within a short span of time the members of the trust chalked out the outlines of the construction of university. Now, it was to be given a shape.