High level meeting to redress the problems of special persons

High level meeting to redress the problems of special persons

                        BAHAWALPUR(PR)Deputy Commissioner Bahawalpur Rana Muhammad Saleem Afzal has directed the concerned officials of the social welfare department to undertake special measures for recording and translation through computer software of the syllabi of blind students of 9^th and 10^th classes to extend state of the art education facilities to the special students in district Bahawalpur. He issued these directions while presiding over a high level meeting to redress the problems of special persons at his conference room, yesterday.

                                The meeting was attended by Additional Deputy Commissioner General Aftab Peerzada, Divisional Focal person for blind people Dr. Anees Ahmad, Divisional focal person for deaf persons Waseem Baig, Divisional focal person for the disable persons Muhammad Luqman, District Education Officer special education Shazi Hashmat, Deputy Director social welfare Khalid Bashir, Ishtiaq Ahmad and other officers and officials of the concerned departments.

                                "A special cell should be established both for the comprehensive registration of all the blind persons and the registered blind persons should also be issued special cards to extend them maximum facilitation in District Bahawalpur", Deputy Commissioner Bahawalpur Rana Muhammad Saleem Afzal noted.

                                Deputy Commissioner directed that immediate steps should be taken to provide jobs to the special persons according to reserve Quota through transparent and merit based mechanism and report in this regard should be submitted within 2 weeks. Earlier, District Education Officer special education Shazi Hashmat briefed the meeting that 11 special education institutions were fully functional to extend educational facilities while 4 translators have been deputed at Bahawal Victoria Hospital and Civil Hospital to extend facilitation to special persons.