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Involve persons with disability in social development process

Speakers tell roundtable

DU Correspondent
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said no country can be determined as a successful one unless she performs her duties towards the persons with disability.
They also said that the involvement of persons with disabilities should be ensured in every stage of the social development process in order to materialise the development.
The speakers were addressing a roundtable on 'Right to education for students with disability: Barriers and moving forward to inclusion into mainstream' at the conference hall of Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University (DU).
DU Protibandhi Chhatra Odhikar Parishad and Action on Disability Development (ADD)
jointly organised the session.
"While seeking admission in educational institutions, physical limitations cannot be treated as incompetence. Like the mainstream students, the students with disability also deserve equal education facilities," said DU Vice-Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz while addressing the roundtable as the chief guest.
Rather, they might have hidden potentiality, which can play a vital role in social development, Prof Faiz said, adding, "That is why, the government, universities and to some extent the corporate world should come forward to provide effective support to the persons with disabilities."
Professor Emeritus' Serajul Islam Chowdhury said persons with disability are becoming a marginalised community day by
day because of continuous repression from different sectors of the society.
He stressed the need for involving the persons with disability in the national development process to have an overall impact.
Editor of the daily Amader Shomoy Naimul Islam Khan urged the students with disabilities to be more united for solving the minor problems.
He stressed the need for allotting more space in the media rather than only publishing supplements.
At the roundtable, a number of students with disability at DU shared the problems they have been facing academically and at their dormitories and urged Prof Faiz to solves those.
Students demanded the authorities appoint officials at the university dorms who would read news-
papers for the visually impaired students.
They also demanded removing the official harassment when a visually impaired student goes foi selecting a junior student of his or her department to assist him/her during the examination.
They also demanded specific quota for the students with disabll ities in the university admission test.
DU Pro-VC Prof AFM Yusuf Haider, President of DU Protibandhi Chhatra Odhikai Parishad Abul Kalam Azad. Deputy Editor of the dail\ Prothom Alo Anisul Haque and ASA University VC Prof Mulnuddin Khan also spoke at the roundtable moderated by Country Director of ADD Mosharraf Hossain.