ARTIFICIAL LIMBS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION OF INDIA (ALIMCO)

Dec. 30, 2018

Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment attended the ‘BhoomiPujan’ ceremony function of ALIMCO’s Auxiliary Production Unit and State-of-the-Art Limb Fitting Center in Faridabad.

About:

  • Status: ALIMCO is a “Not For Profit” Central Public Sector Undertaking working under the administrative control of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India.

  • Mandate: It has been manufacturing various types of aids & appliances on mass scale to meet the requirements of the Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), across the country.

  • Centres:
    • At present ALIMCO has 5 Auxiliary Production Centres (AAPCs) situated at Bhubaneswar (Orissa), Jabalpur (MP), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Chanalon (Punjab) and a new production unit in Ujjain.

    • The Auxiliary Production Centre of Faridabad will the sixth unit for manufacturing modern assistive device.



Source : PIB

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