This Haryana Park Has Special Swings, Therapists & Vocational Trainers For Kids With Disabilities!

Kids love parks. They make new friends, play with them on several types of swings and slides and have a good time relaxing quite close to greenery and nature. Parks are a place to relax and rejuvenate. While kids of all ages enjoy parks, there are some who find it difficult to climb up the ladder to the slides or go up the jungle gym.

In a step towards making children’s parks more inclusive, just like schools are today, Haryana is to have a dedicated park that is specially built for children with disabilities reports India Today.

Accordingly, Panchkula’s Town Park just opened a park especially designed for disabled kids. With this, Haryana has also become the first north Indian state with such a park.

The park has been built in an area of 6-acre by the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment. Reliance Foundation has funded the park under its corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative. It was built in a total cost of Rs 65 lakhs. The swings installed at the park are specially designed for the divyangs.

Apart from this, speech therapists, physiotherapists and vocational trainers would also be present in the park to assist disabled children. The park also has trampolines, roller beds, basket spinner, xylophones, drums, wobbly baskets, slides with various tunnels and mounds for the kids.

“The park has been built keeping in mind safety of specially-abled children,” a Reliance Foundation spokesperson told India Today.

“I believe this is a great initiative. The children are very happy and would definitely want to come back here,” said Mamta Sharma, the Principal at ASHA School.

It’s indeed a very thoughtful initiative by the Haryana government. We hope other states take inspiration and build more such parks.