THE Life Corporation of India is celebrating October as Social Security Month and is promoting various welfare schemes for handicapped people.A seminar was recently organised on this theme at Yogakshema. Apart from representatives of various non governmental organisations (NGOs), C M Tribhuvan, District Social Welfare and Employment Officer and Dr C D Mohanti, high ranking official of the union Labour Ministry, participated in the seminar.

LIC western region officer N C Sharma and regional chief officer S D Jindal addressed the gathering. The role of NGOs in co-ordinating with LIC for upliftment of needy, handicapped people was stressed. The LIC will also help weaker sections through its different insurance schemes. Last year, in a similar joint effort by the LIC and NGOs, over 50 lakh handicapped people were benefited.

Film screenings for children

AVEHI, an audio-visual resource centre, will hold a `Film Mela' for children in the age group of nine to 14 fromOctober 12 to 14. Educative and entertaining films, including the Charlie Chaplin series, will be screened for Rs five. The festival will be held between 10.30 am and 2.30 pm at AVEHI, Sardar Nagar No 4, S M Road, Raoli Camp, Sion-Koliwada. For details, call on 4072188/4023032.

Book fair at Borivli

Pauline Publications will hold a book fair on the theme `Value-Education: Moving Towards the Third Millennium' at St Francis D' Assisi High School & Junior College of Science and Commerce, Borivli (west) between November seven and 15.

Meet to protest attacks on Christians

The Bombay Catholic Sabha is to hold a public meeting to highlight the `sinister designs of those attempting to antagonise the Christian community and incite communal passions in Hindus and Christians'. The attacks on Christians by fundamentalist groups in recent months is the focus of the meet. Archbishop Ivan Dias, activist Teesta Setalvad, intellectual Asghar Ali Engineer and former Bharatiya Janata Party legislator MadhuDeolekar will be the main speakers at the function, to be held on October 13.

Dadar's own list of professionals

With a view to helping residents of Dadar, Arun Vedak has prepared a list of professionals in the area as part of a project called Dadar Grahak Mitra. The list will include other details like mentions of hospitals and other emergency services in the city. According to Vedak, doctors, technicians, plumbers, lawyers, and architects can place their advertisements free of cost in the list. While this list is limited to Dadar, the experiment, if successful, will be extended to other parts of Mumbai. Vedak has appealed to professionals in Dadar to register their names in the list.