Hyundai India distributes 72 assistive devices to disabled people in Bengaluru

Over the next three years, Hyundai Motor India will offer 684 technologically advanced assistive devices to people with various disabilities.

As part of its social welfare initiative, carmaker Hyundai Motor India Foundation (HMIF) on Thursday distributed 72 devices, including specially designed wheelchairs, hearing aids, digital kits for the visually impaired, bionic limbs and other devices, to the disabled people in Bengaluru.

The NGO Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled is helping HMIF identify people who would need such devices.

According to the company, these high-tech assistive devices are designed to improve recipients’ mobility, vision, hearing and communication capabilities.

Addressing a conclave organized by Hyundai Motors India in the city, the company’s chief operating officer Tarun Garg said Samarth by Hyundai reflects the company’s commitment to use technology to empower people with disabilities in India.