{"id":5317,"date":"2011-10-12T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2011-10-12T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:18:46","slug":"a-park-to-be-built-in-bhubaneswar-especially-for-differently-abled-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/5317","title":{"rendered":"A park to be built in Bhubaneswar especially for differently-abled kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypioneer.com\/state-editions\/bhubaneswar\/12829-park-for-differently-abled-children-at-cost-of-rs-3-cr.html\" target=\"_self\">a report in Pioneer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Indian  Academy of Paediatrics, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation  and sahidnagar Socio-Cultural Society have planned a unique park for  the differently-abled children of the city to be built up approximately  at a cost of Rs 3 crore on PPP mode.<\/p>\n<p>As per national coordinator of IAP Disability Chapter Dr Arabinda  Mohanty, the park is planned over an area of 17,000 sqf near the ESI  Hospital and will provide an entertaining and amusing centre to over 700  spastic children in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed park will be far ahead of the parks in Mysore and  Bilaspur (Chhatisgarh) in many aspects including it being 100 per cent  disabled-friendly with merry-go-round provisions for children in wheel  chairs and modern gadgets for amusement , besides physiotherapists,  supporting staff and a standby ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mohanty said though the park will be meant for the  wheelchair-bound children, normal children would also be allowed but  only after they are sensitised to related issues. &ldquo;Entry of normal  children will help in mainstreaming of the spastics and in increasing  the understanding of the normal children about spasticity,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from a report in Pioneer. The Indian Academy of Paediatrics, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation and sahidnagar Socio-Cultural Society have planned a unique park for the differently-abled children of the city to be built up approximately at a cost of Rs 3 crore on PPP mode. As per national coordinator of IAP Disability Chapter Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,7,802],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-district-khordha","category-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}