Bharat Vikas Parishad

Paldi, Ahmedabad, India

Address:
22, Lower Level, Jaydeep Tower (basement),
Between Shreyas Crossing and Gharnighar Derasar,
Vasana,
Ahmedabad 380 007

Phone: (91)79-6636087

 

 

 

 

“R” (RSS) and W for welfare

 

 

 

What is VIKLANG CENTER?

A Rehabilitation Center for the Physically Disabled .

 

Ref [ [i]] shows photographs of disabled people being helped at the Viklang Center.

 

Bharat Vikas Parishad is an International Voluntary organization having around 650 branches in 29 states of India. There are 25 branches of the organization in the state of Gujarat. The organization has a basic aim of building national character by building individual character.

The organization works on SERVICE - COOPERATION - CONTACTS - CHARACTER AND SANSKAR WITH SACRIFICE. The organization is a group of like-minded intelligent people ready to devote time and energy to a social cause. It is a family organization.

The organization has undertaken different projects like VANVASI KALYAN YOJANA (the project to educate most illiterate tribes in the country by adopting their children for education). The other project is VIKALANG PUNARVAS CENTER (Rehabilitation center for physically disabled people). Bharat Vikas Parishad organizes camps in different parts of the country and provides artificial limbs, artificial hands, calipers, crunches, etc free of cost.

 

Program for Rehabilitation of the Physically Disabled:

According to a survey by the Government of India around 5.5 million people have some kind of disability with legs. Approximately 1 million people don't have either a hand or a leg. Around 4 million people have become disabled due to polio. Every year around 25,000 people become disabled due to road accidents. Gujarat state alone has around 150,000 physically disabled people. BHARAT VIKAS PARISHAD, Paldi branch, Ahmedabad, has established a centre for helping the physically disabled. This center is nineth of its type in India established by the organization. A full-fledged workshop is being established whereby a person will receive limb/hands/calipers made to his/her size in the workshop and the same will be provided in the shortest possible time. The total cost of the workshop with the modern equipments will be around Rs. 25,00,000. The center also proposes to create a mobile workshop which can move in the state of Gujarat and Rajasthan wherever such camps are organized so that the disabled persons will not be required to visit Ahmedabad for help. Such camps can be arranged at every block or district places ] according to the need. The mobile workshop will be strengthened by qualified technicians and paramedical persons.

Most of these disabled people are people below the poverty line as defined by the Government of India. Due to poverty and lack of literacy they do not have any way of finding help for artificial hands or legs. Bharat Vikas Parishad is one of the leading organization in India which provides artificial hands and legs to the needy. 

 

From [ [ii]] and [ [iii]]:

 

“Bharat Vikas Parishad has many projects and one of them is Vikalang Punarvas Yojana. In South India, the Vikalang Punarvas Kendra, Bhagyanagar, is the first centre opened by Bharat Vikas Parishad. The centre was inaugurated on 12.01.93.on Vivekananda Jayanthi Day. At the start itself, the work- shop was fully established and the first 10 legs were distributed on the 2nd may,1993, by Shri Jagmohanji, Ex-Governor, Jammu and Kashmir and our National Vice President. Camps were conducted at Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Guntur, Warangal, Vishakapatnam, Thimmapur, Anakapalli and Mysore. The Kendra was able to provide artificial legs and callipers to more than1,000 handicapped persons. Currently, the capacity of the Kendra has reached 75 limbs per month and is expected to grow to 200 limbs per month soon.

 

ACHIEVEMENTS
By using HDPF & Fibre raw materials instead of the Aluminum sheet used for the traditional Jaipur foot, it has become possible to manufacture most modern artificial limbs, light in weight and convenient to the users, following figures indicate the weight of limbs now being manufactured at Viklang Punarvas Kendra, Hyderabad. It is clear that modular modern limbs fulfil the requirements of the upper class amputees, who now need not go abroad, in search of such sophistication.

 

TYPE WEIGHT

Jaipur Foot B.K 1.5 Kg

Fibre Foot B.K 1.25 Kg

HDPE Limb B.K 1.20 Kg

Modular limb B.K 0.85 Kg

 

NEW STRIDES IN DEVELOPING ARTIFICIAL WORKING HANDS
The Kendra has the remarkable acheivement in designing developing and providing artificial hands to a girl student of seventh class, Kum, Supriya , who had lost both the hands below the elbow, in a ghastly accident. It was a thrilling moment for the girl, her parents, and the members of the Kendra to witness the girl working the girl working with her artificial hands, as if they were natural.

BHARAT VIKAS FOOT

The modern Poly- Propylene Foot (Reinforced), has been developed and a prototype of the foot was presented to the delegates of the Andhra Pradesh State Council of Bharat vikas Parishad. The council has unanimously decided to name it, the "Bharat Vikas Foot" which is super-light, as compared to the Jaipur foot which was first designed.

The comparative weights of the three types of foot are:

Traditional Jaipur Foot = 1,000 Grams

Almico Foot = 600 Grams

Bharat Vikas Foot = 290 Grams.

AS TRAINING CENTRE

By virtue of the experience and expertise gained over the last two years and more, the Bhagyanagar Centre could impact technical training. Two such instances are Gauhati, and Cochin, whose staff were trained here and are managing those Centers satisfactorily. Therefore, this activity needs special attention.

 

From The Times of India [ [iv]] :

 

“Fitness Camp For Disabled Organised FAIZABAD

The 10-day mobile on-the-spot fitment camp to rehabilitate disabled persons concluded here recently.
A total of 967 disabled persons were given artificial limbs, polio calipers, crutches, surgical shoes and tricycles free of cost. The ten-day camp was organised by local unit of Bharat Vikas Parishad in association with Jingle Bell Academy and St John's Ambulance Brigade, Saket Centre. The camp was sponsored by Bhagwan Mahvir Viklang Sahayta Samiti-limb centre Jaipur.
A team of Bhagwan Mahavir Viklang Sahayata Samiti, Jaipur had come here on May 19 last on the invitation of Faizabad district magistrate Navneet Sahgal, who later involved the local non-governmental organisations for making the required arrangements.

While Jingle Bell Academy provided its campus for venue of the camp, the local unit of Bharat Vikas Parishad hosted the 15-men mobile team and used all its resources in making extensive publicity of the camp. The BVP also provided over 1000 lunch packets to the disabled persons, who turned up in the camp for registration.
The ten-day camp registered a total of 1,123 cases, out of which the team of orthopaedic surgeons and orthotech engineers found 967 cases as fit for consideration at the camp site. The BMVSS Jaipur team headed by Er. Arun Mehta prosthetic and orthotec engineer manufactured renouned Jaipur foot for 73 disabled persons and
368 Jaipur calipers for polio effected patients on the spot and provided them free of cost on the very day of registration.
In addition to artificial limbs and polio calipers the BMVSS team also distributed 100 tricycles each costing Rs 4500 to such disabled persons who are supposed to be on move to earn their livelihood.

The Jaipur foot is made of rubber material, generally used in manufacture of tyres. It looks like a normal foot and provides a good range of movements required for normal human locomotion. BMVSS team manager Arn Mehta told TOINS that Jaipur foot did not require any shoe, amputees could walk with barefoot.  It permits transverse rotation of foot on the leg to facilitate the act of walking as well to allow him sitting cross-legged, he adds. He further said that the Jaipur footbeing manufactured by his team was so efficient that after this limb was fitted, a disabled person could walk like a normal man without a stick or support, and even run, ride a bicycle and climb a tree. Meanwhile Mr Vishal Moihan president Faizabad unit of Bharat Vikas Parishad and Mr KK Jhunjhunwala managing director of Jingle Bell academy have extended their invitations to BMVSS Jaipur unit to hold their camp on annual basis in Faizabad. “

 

Who Else Supports Them?

 

Ref. [[v] ] is the official Madhya Pradesh government site providing a link to Bharat Vikas Parishad as one of the organizations providing welfare services

 

The Chief Vigilance Commissioner, speaking at BVP, Chennai, Oct 24, 2001 [[vi]], praises their work.