KARACHI:An important meeting was held at Sindh Secretariat under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah to review projects of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPD). The meeting was attended by Secretary Finance Sajid Jamal Abro, Secretary Planning Development Faisal Ahmed Uqeeli, Secretary Special Rehabilitation Department Akhtar Hussain Bugti and others

In the meeting, the Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, while briefing about the ADP Annual Development Program of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities said that at present 15 schemes of 800 million are ingoing and these schemes will be completed this year. These schemes are in Karachi, Hyderabad, Tando Muhammad Khan, Dadu, Sakrand, Sukkur and in Shaheed Benazirabad.

In the meeting, Chief Secretary Sindh Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah said that the Sindh Government is going to build 5 Centers of Excellence for special persons in Sindh province at a cost of Rs.500 million. He further said that a center for special persons would also be set up at Ghoda-Bari at a cost of Rs. 74 million. In the meeting, the Chief Secretary Sindh directed the Finance Department to release all the funds for the projects of Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities.