: ‘Sugama Sancharam,’ a barrier-free travel for differently abled persons, has been organised on September 27 in the capital as part of World Tourism Day. Being organised by Kerala Tourism in association with South India Tourism Foundation, the initiative is to spread the relevance and urgency of making the tourism destinations, properties and new projects accessible to all, including the differently abled.
As many as 100 differently abled persons from the training and rehabilitation centres of the Union Labour Ministry, Social Welfare and Kerala State Handicapped Welfare Corporation will be taken to the Kanakakkunnu Palace.
Foundation chairman B. Jayachandran Nair said after the inaugural event, the participants will be taken to Veli Tourist Village for sight-seeing and boating. Later, they will be taken to the Shanghumughom beach.
Arrangements have been made for those coming on wheelchair to the programme, he added.
The volunteers of the Kerala State Body Building Association will help the delegates.
The experiences of the differently abled will be collated and presented to the State and Union governments, he added.
Minister for Tourism A. C. Moideen will kick off the event at Kanakakkunnu Palace. Kanmony, a differently abled multi-talented girl and Abdul Buhari, world record holder in body building under the physically challenged category, will be the guests of honour.
