International Day of Disabled Persons: Disabled in G-B direct jobs, rights
GILGIT: Physically challenged residents of Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday demanded their due share in supervision jobs so that they can feel some emergence of governmental acceptance.
“We are reminded each day, possibly by a government, a clergy, media or even by a open during large, that we have no purpose in a society,” pronounced visually marred Irshad Kazmi during an eventuality in Gilgit to commemorate a International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
“Nothing could be serve from a truth,” he told The Express Tribune on a sidelines of a event.
The event, organized by a Al-Khidmat Foundation (AKF) and attended by Chief Minister Hafeezur Rehman, highlighted a problems physically challenged people face in a region.
“Most of those physically challenged are though jobs,” pronounced tellurian rights activists Israruddin Israr while addressing a ceremony.
To make matters worse, Israr pronounced G-B did not have a combined database of special people with experts estimating there were 3,000 physically challenged people in a region.
“Generally, we can contend a acceptability of people like us [the disabled] in a multitude is pathetic,” Kazmi said.
Kazmi, who heads a Visually-Impaired Persons Rehabilitation Association (VIPRA), pronounced that special people are discriminated opposite and are told, directly or obliquely, that they are useless.
However, he pronounced that there had been some alleviation recently.
“Some people [who are physically challenged] have been given jobs in supervision departments underneath a share specified for them,” pronounced Kazmi, who had filed a petition in a arch justice of Gilgit opposite non-implementation of a dual per cent share for physically challenged people. In his speech, a arch apportion urged non-governmental organisations to assistance a supervision accumulate information physically challenged people in a region.
“Lets work together,” pronounced Rehman. “We have a resources though miss of information hampers a efforts for such people.” He positive that his supervision was perplexing to exercise a share for special people.
On a arise 50 infirm persons were supposing giveaway of cost wheelchairs by AKF as partial of the programme to commission special persons.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 4th, 2016.
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