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Balochistan Social Welfare Department Provides Basic Amenities, Free Education To Special Children
Sumaira FH Published December 26, 2018 | 07:32 PM
Balochistan Social Welfare and Special Education department is providing free education and basic amenities to mentally retarted children of the province, an official of the department said.
Talking to APP, he said the department was also providing boarding, lodging, books, uniforms free of cost to the special children in the province.
He said, they were also providing the supporting devices like wheel chairs, tricycles, crutches, white sticks and hearing aids with vocational skills to children with disabilities.
He said the department has planned to establish a Special Education Complex in Zhob division at a cost of Rs2.
5 million under special education initiatives of the provincial government.
He said the government was working to ensure the accessibility of the basic right to education to every special child with the provision of special institutions.
According to the Balochistan Persons with Disabilities Act, which among other things assures equity in education for people with disabilities, includes quota and 50 percent flexibility in fee in public and private institutions.
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