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'Govt-NGO coordination a must to help people with disability’

Bss, Dhaka
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday underscored the need for effective coordination between the government and the NGOs to help the people with disability, especially children.
An inter-ministerial and inter-divisional network needs to be established and the network should be expanded up to die private level for undertaking a comprehensive programme to bring the disabled children into mainstream of the country s development, they said.
The roundtable tided ’Creating 4 awareness and strengthening network for development of street and working disabled children’ was organised by Centre for Services and Information on Disability' (CSID) at Cirdap auditorium.
Social welfare Secretary MA Hye Hawiader spoke as the chief guest while women and children affairs Secretary Rokeya Sultana as the special guest.
Chairman of board of trustees of
CSID Monsur Ahmed Choudhury presided over the roundtable, moderated by its Executive Director Khandaker Jahurul Alam CSID Director Robiul Hasan presented a keynote paper.
Hawiader said the present caretaker government is fully committed to turn the people with disability into human resources by providing them with all facilities including education and training.
The government has ratified the UN Convention on disabled persons' rights, taken initiative to make a database of people with disability and brought transparency in the activities of the National Disabled Development Foundation, he said adding that it also gave stipends to more then 50,000 students with disability'last year.
He said media can play a vital role in creating awareness about rights of the people with disability and to change the mindset of the people as the people with disability' contribute to the development, like other people.
Rokeya said her ministry would review the national work plan for children (2004 -2009) to focus more on the children with disability, especially die wo rking and street children.
She said a roadmap is needed to work through coordination with all stakeholders for mainstreaming the disabled cliildren in society.
The private companies, she said, should get involved in helping the disabled through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) schemes.
The other speakers demanded more budgetary allocation for disabled children, easing the enrolment process in the school and building required facilities forthem.
They also demanded that a minimum care standard be set for disabled children and resources be given to centres for the people with disability run by both the government and the NGOs to provide proper care for them.
A good number of high officials of tire concerned ministries, representatives of NGOs and development partners attended the roundtable.