A comprehensive service facilities project for disabled people in Tibet started in Nyethang Township, Chushur County of Lhasa on Dec.11, 2012. Up to now, it is Tibet’s largest undertaking with the most investment and widest coverage for disabled persons.

It is reported that the project, with a total investment of 96.35 million yuan, includes an autonomous region-level, five prefecture (municipal) - level foster service centers and two comprehensive service centers for disabled persons at the prefecture (municipal) - level. It is one of the 226 key programs of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).

The project, the largest one with the widest coverage for disabled persons by now, is also the pro-people and benevolent rule project with the best expected result, said Dekyi, the vice chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region government.

According to Dekyi, the project takes the permanent registered residents of Tibet with severe disability as the main service objects. It plays a vanguard role in guiding the service for the disabled as it could provide comprehensive services, including fostering, rehabilitation, education, employment and comprehensive services.

In the coming years, Tibet will accelerate the development of undertakings for disabled persons, and strive to establish the basic social security and service system for them by 2015.

Benpa, the director-general of the Tibet Disabled Persons’ Federation, said that they would further enlarge the service range of rehabilitation during the 12th Five-Year Period (2011-2015), when the rehabilitation service will be opened in over 50 percent of towns and 40 percent of communities of Tibet in order to help 30,000 disabled people. Tibet will create 2000 job opportunities for disabled people in towns, 8000 in rural area.

By now, there are 194,000 handicapped people in Tibet. More than 13,000 of them had realized different degrees of rehabilitation during the 11th Five Year Plan period (2005-2010). The education, employment, culture, sports and barrier-free facilities construction for the disabled had also achieved significant results.