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MENON-QUOTA
No scope to exclude quota for disabled in govt job: Menon
DHAKA, Oct 31, 2018 (BSS) – Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon
today said that quota system is a right for differently-abled people and
therefore no option to exclude them from the right.
“The government formulated law to ensure the rights and security of the
specially-abled people in 2013…So, there is no scope to exclude them from
quota system now,” he said.
Menon said this while speaking as the chief guest at a roundtable
discussion at National Press Club organised by “Bangladesh Protibondhi
Shikhharthi Oikkyo Parishad” in the city, said a press release.
There is a provision to provide them special opportunity in educational
institutions and government jobs, he added.
Convener of the Parishad Ali Hossain presided over the programme while
Additional Secretary of the ministry Shushanto Kumer Pramanik was present.
Chairman of Department of Special Education under the Institute of
Education and Research (IER) in Dhaka University Dr Mohamad Mahbubur Rahman
presented the key-note paper at the programme.
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