Islamabad: President Arif Alvi has accelerated nationwide efforts to create an enabling environment, allowing people with physical and mental disabilities to be included inclusively into all sectors of society as dignified and respected members. I reiterated the need to be able to participate.
The President expressed these views while chairing the Conference on Facilitation of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) in Aiwan-e-Sadr on Friday.
The meeting was attended by KP’s Zakat, Ashur, Minister of Social Welfare, Special Education and Women’s Empowerment, Anwar Zeb Khan, Special Advisor to Prime Minister Sindh of DAP Empowerment Division, NADRA Chair, Muhammad Tariq Malik and senior officials. Federal Department of National Health Service, Regulation and Coordination, Punjab, Sindh, KP, Department of Social Welfare, Balochistan, Department of Primary and Secondary Education, AJK, Department of Labor and Human Resources Development, Punjab, Representative of NAVTTC, Baitul Maru, Pakistan, Directorate General of Special Education, Islamabad, NIRM, WHO, NADRA.
Prime Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan Khalid Khurshid Khan also attended the meeting via video link.
During the conference, the President offered the Federal Department of Education and Professional Training (FEPT) a leading role to develop a national framework for providing targeted, quality education and market-oriented skills to people with disabilities (DAP). ) in a systematic manner in consultation with all stakeholders, including states, international organizations, NGOs and the private sector, to not only determine teacher-to-student ratios with disabilities; , in schools that provide a clear and agreed world-class direction for both public and private sector institutions.
In addition to creating a repository of DAP-compliant materials, including SOPs, he also considers DAP obstacles such as sign language, Braille, software development, business settings, and selling products and services online. Emphasized collecting skills that can be granted to DAP. , skills register, disability-specific reading, research and reference materials that should be accessible to his DAPs nationwide.
He stressed the need to develop an accelerated system for mass registration of persons with disabilities around Pakistan so that clear data can be obtained for planning and other interventions.
The President thanked NADRA for its outreach to the registration of DAPs across the country and NADRA encouraged DAPs and their families to develop data on location and nature of disability and later, with the assistance of relevant departments, disability cards were issued. , which guarantees maximum facilitation to the DAP. The data thus produced will help the government formulate authentic and meaningful policies, strategies and action plans to mainstream his DAP as a full and dignified member of society. He said the number of about 600,000 people currently registered with NADRA is small compared to his DAP’s estimate of Pakistan’s number, which could exceed 20 million, so there will soon be a full registration for PWD. emphasized the development of solutions that can be used for
The President stressed consultations with the International Labor Organization (ILO) and other relevant international bodies by states, NGOs, the private sector, NAVTTC, TEVTA, chambers of commerce and other stakeholders in industry, We sought knowledge and expertise to fine-tune our database and advance our world. class curricula, disability-related skills enrollment, adoption of global best practices for mainstreaming DAPS, barrier-free mobility for DAP, providing them with assistive technology and world-class synthetic body parts, enacting new legislation, Improve existing laws and DAP jobs.
He launched a comprehensive and inclusive media campaign, including social and traditional media, to provide education and information on the rights of DAPs and to educate families, neighbors and the general public about their responsibilities and obligations towards DAPs. said that there is a need to educate about After setting up a DAPs-oriented response system, DAPs will map out different areas of disability and skill levels, develop a list of benefits and incentives offered to them, and open them up to them in the public and private sectors. provide specific employment opportunities.
He said all government and private sector organizations are obliged to provide jobs to the DAP according to quotas ranging from 2-5% by creating disability-specific paid and productive jobs. He said charity-based hiring approaches should be discouraged as they do not bring dignity and honor to employees and add no value to the organization.
Conference participants proposed various solutions for DAP mainstreaming. The President will hold the next meeting on a three-month timeline to assess decisions already made, review progress, and fine-tune future course of action even more sharply to address all aspects of life. Suggested making sure to mainstream his DAP on the side. But in a meaningful and quantifiable way.
While outlining the facilities that NADRA offers to PWD, the NADRA Chair noted that all PWD have been issued an executive category CNIC with the international disability logo, eliminating the need to queue and We said that lifetime efficacy is our top priority. He also said NADRA has created a biker service to provide doorstep registration services for disabled people. He said that while NADRA recruits people with disabilities who have successfully completed compilation of his 121 million voter list, children aged 9 to 18 are issued juvenile cards. said that
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