The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Aiims) set up in the state capital Patna has launched an initiative for preparing youth to take care of elderly and poor people in the rural areas. This is seen as an initiative somewhat similar to ‘Shravan Kumar’whose story is famously known in the ancient Hindu text of Ramayana where a boy named Shravan Kumar took care of his old and blind parents.
The main objective of this initiative is to provide support to the elderly, poor and the needy along with generating EMPLOYMENT for the rural youth.
The ‘Shravan Kumar Yojana’ has been started by the Community Outreach and Telemedicine department of AIIMS-Patna, under which six Women among a total of 36 people, have been trained in its second batch. Earlier, 45 youths were trained in the first batch under this initiative.