RAJSHAHI, Dec 5, 2019 (BSS) – Speakers at a post-rally discussion here today
said the people with special needs should be given some additional privileges
for their proper rehabilitation and family integration.
They viewed holistic and collective efforts of both the public and private
organisations have become an urgent need for ensuring their fundamental
rights which are keys to their social dignity.
Terming the challenged people as an integral part of the society, the
speakers put emphasis on mainstreaming them through creating a friendly
atmosphere for people with disabilities. The physically challenged people
should never be adjudged as burden of the society.
District Social Service office and District Administration jointly organised
the discussion at Shishu Academy auditorium in observance of the 28th
International and the 21st National Day of Persons with Disabilities today.
‘The Future is Accessible’ was the main theme of the day.
Deputy Commissioner Hamidul Haque and Divisional Director of Department of
Social Services (DSS) AKM Sarwar Jahan addressed the meeting as chief and
special guests respectively while DSS Deputy Director Hasina Momtaj was in
the chair.
District Children Affairs Officer Monjur Kader, Member of National Social
Welfare Council Mozammel Haque and DSS Assistant Director Dr Abdullah Al
Firoj also spoke on the occasion.
Hamidul Haque said that the physically and mentally challenged people can be
mainstreamed and empowered using the Information and Communications
Technology (ICT).
He urged wealthy people and other philanthropists to stand beside the people
with special abilities and also urged the challenged people to make them fit
for the jobs for providing minimum services to the service- providers.
Other speakers said the people with special needs aren’t the burden of the
society but wealth. They have to be built as worthy citizens. All quarters
should come forward towards forging a social movement for welfare of those
thereby overall developments of the society will be achieved.