KARACHI:Special Assistant to CM Sindh on Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar has said that Sindh government was ensuring special seats in all means of transport to persons with disabilities and allocating them parking space exclusively at all public places.
These spaces shall be nearest to that particular place, he said while presiding over a meeting here in his office on Monday. Secretary DEPD Khalid Chachar, Additional Secretary Abu Bakar Madni, Deputy Secretary Shahzaib Shaikh and other officers also attended the meeting.
The meeting was informed that in this regard, a letter had been sent to secretaries of Transport and Local Government Departments and other relevant heads of the departments, asking them to ensure implementation of Sindh Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2018 in letter and spirit.
Qamar stated the aim of the Act 2018 is to facilitate the special persons and empower them so that they could perform their routine work smoothly.
He said that they were also ensuring ramps and special washrooms in buildings and shopping malls and no NOC of new building would be issued unless it had ramps and special washrooms for special persons.
Qamar was of the opinion that it was their prime responsibility to facilitate special persons in order to make them a useful citizen of the society. He assured that the Sindh government was committed to provide relief to special persons at all levels and for the purpose, they also needed the cooperation of other stakeholders.