City Desk :
Officials and leaders of different organisations working for welfare of disabled people at a discussion have stressed on engaging inclusive GO-NGO efforts for development of the physically challenged people.
The district administration, Department of Social Services (DSS) and ‘Rangpur Protibondhi Seba O Sahajjo Kendra’ organised the discussion at a local community centre in Rangpur in observance of the Bangla Sign Language Day-2022 on the seventh instant.
Bangladesh National Federation of the Deaf (BNFD) and Rangpur Badhir Sangha (RBS) extended assistance in observing the day through different programs including a human chain, reports BSS.
A number of physically challenged, hearing impaired and intellectually disabled people and civil society members participated in the human chain abiding by the health directives in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education and ICT) AWM Raihan Shah addressed the discussion as the chief guest with Disability Affairs Officer at ‘Rangpur Protibondhi Seba O Sahajjo Kendra’ Taposh Kumar Barma in the chair.
President of Rangpur Protibondhi Foundation and heroic freedom fighter Akbor Hossain, President of Society for the Welfare of the Intellectually Disabled (SWID), Bangladesh for Rangpur Shushanto Bhowmick and President of RBS Advocate Zobaydul Islam spoke as special guests.
Zobaydul Islam discussed the academic, training and extracurricular activities being conducted at RBS for the physically challenged, disabled, deaf and dumb and vision impaired population in the city.
Taposh Kumar Barma discussed the massive programmes being implemented by the government to ensure education, training, health services and extracurricular activities for physically challenged, disabled, deaf and dumb and vision impaired population.
Akbor Hossain stressed on mainstreaming and empowering the people with different types and extents of disabilities through GO-NGO efforts to attain the sustainable development goals on time.
The chief guest called for supporting the physically challenged people to turn them into human resources and ensure their development, empowerment, employment, constitutional rights, social security and dignity.
