Punjab: Rs 1 billion for special children education

[Naveed Yaseen]

Provincial Minister for Special Education Malik Iqbal Channar has said that the Punjab government is paying special attention to education and rehabilitation of special children and for this, Rs 1000 million has been allocated in Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the Special Education Department.

A DGPR handout issued on Sunday said that the minister while talking to a delegation of PML workers added that allocation for the ADP 2009-10 wa65.5 per cent more than the revised allocation of Rs 604.74 million for year 2008-09.

The minister further stated that school-going disabled children had been provided educational opportunity in 15 District Centres for Special Education and Plans for the establishment of International Standard Rehabilitation Centres for the disabled children have been finalized.

The department is emphasizing skill development and the rehabilitation of physically challenged children.

He said the department had also introduced incentive for increasing enrolment including nutrition, stipends, free uniform, free boarding and lodging facilities, free textbooks and Braille books, free pick and drop facility and merit scholarships.

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