City gets museum for differently-abled
For the first time in the State, Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday inaugurated a museum for the differently-abled, christened ‘Museum of Possibilities’.
The museum has been established inside the campus of State Commissionerate for the Differently-abled at a cost of Rs 1 crore. After inaugurating the museum, Stalin saw the objects on display and was explained about their features.
The museum has features such as education tools, playing tools, handwork tools, augmentative and alternative communication, computer access, application and software for independent living, scan and read technology and so on. One of the important features of the museum is a model house set up for differently-abled in which a sample kitchen, bed room and restrooms are present.
In the model house, the equipment which are useful for the differently-abled persons are showcased. For instance, the kitchen contains slabs of variable heights for different kinds of differently-abled persons. Similarly, the bed room contains special beds for them and the restrooms have different kinds of seating arrangements and special bars for them to hold and so on.
However, the most important feature of the museum is that every equipment or object for the differently-abled persons has a QR code so that they can scan them to obtain the details of the objects such as their price and the place where it is available. Officials attached to the differently-abled department said the objects are available for all strata of differently-abled persons at all prices. Even people in rural areas can benefit out of this museum by knowing about the objects that are rarely found in their localities, they said.
Stalin also launched a scheme named Choice-based system of providing assistive devices, under which the differently-abled persons will be given five types of aids based on their choice.