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’Budgetary allocations for people with disabilities not enough’

Staff Correspondent
Although the good will of the present government for the welfare of the people with disability has been expressed through budgetary allocations in the proposed national budget for 2009-10 fiscal year, these allocations are not *mough to mainstream them.
This was stated by the representatives of different organisations working with the people with disability at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) auditorium in the city yesterday.
The press conference titled 'National budget and people with disability' was organised jointly by Action on Disability and Development (ADD), Jatiya Trinomul Protibandhi Sangstha and Protibandhi Narider Jatiya Parishad.
In a written statement they urged the government to raise the monthly allowances of poor people with disability to Tk 500 from Tk 300 by increasing their total number from 2,60,000 to 3,00,000.
They also demanded specific budgetary allocation for people with disability who are more vulnerable than others duringany natural disaster.
Mentioning about the proposed maternity allowances for destitute women, the speakers demanded such
allocations for the mothers of people with disability’.
They also demanded 16 seats in the Jatiya Sangsad reserved for people with disability and implementation of their 10 percent quota in senior government service including five percent quota in Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Cadre.
Joychand Karmokar, acting deputy country director of ADD, said around 98 percent people with disability are jobless while 96 percent of them are not getting any opportunity to educate themselves.
Keeping these huge populations outside the develop-
ment programme, the Vision 2021 goal of the present government cannot be achieved, he added.
Joychand urged the government to allocate more funds crating new sectors for the real welfare of the people with disability.
Akter Hossain, president of Jatiya Trinomul Protibandhi Sangstha, Ayesha Akter, councilor of Protibandhi Narider Jatiya Parishad, and Syeda Sajeda Alam of the students forum of ADD were present at the press conference where Fazlul Azim, human rights officer of ADD, presented a keynote paper.