New Governing Council of Cheshire Homes Chandigarh elected

Cheshire Homes Chandigarh re-elected Gurdip S. Deep as its Chairman for 2014-16, with Raminder Kaur Panag as Vice Chairman, Maniki Deep as General Secretary and Mukesh Kumar Gupta as Treasurer. 

Other members of the Governing Council include Maj Gen (retd) Hardev Singh, Shaju Peter, Neena Singh, C.J. Singh, and Rama Gupta, with Maj Gen (retd) A.S. Kahlon, Chairman Emeritus as the ex-officio member.

Cheshire Homes, setup in November 2002 with the support of the Department of Social Welfare of Chandigarh Administration, houses 17 physically challenged inmates who are provided with all amenities and vocational training to become self-supporting, he informed.

Cheshire Homes had instituted Awards in 2013 for the individuals and organizations working for the physically challenged and had been supporting a number of them as a part of its outreach activities by holding medical checkup camps, and providing aids and appliances.

During 2013-14, nearly three dozen tricycles, wheel chairs, and bicycles, besides  innumerable prosthetic aids and railway concession passes were provided to the physically challenged.  

Cheshire Homes gifts tricycles and wheel chair to physically challenged on Independence Day

For 12 years old Parminder Singh, 18 years old Gurdev Singh, and 10 years old Khushi, 15th August was a freedom from immobility.  

All the three are physically challenged who received tricycles and wheel chair to move around, thanks to the Cheshire Homes Chandigarh.

Director Social Welfare Rajesh Jogpal unfurled the national flag along with Mrs. Promila Chandra Mohan of SOREM, the governing council members of Cheshire Homes including Chairman Gurdip S. Deep, Vice Chairman Raminder Kaur Panag, General Secretary Maniki Deep, amongst other members and that of Inner Wheel Club of Chandigarh Midtown, and the neighbours in Sector 21. 

The best part was the involvement of the local residents in the celebrations who could meet with 20 residents of the Cheshire Homes, which is supported by the Department of Social Welfare Chandigarh Administration, Mr. Deep informed.