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Visually Impaired People

Call to introduce Braille system in all educational instts

Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a press conference yesterday urged the government to introduce Braille system in all institutions to ensure education for visually impaired people.
As most educational institutions, especially those in rural areas, have no such system the visually impaired children are deprived of education, they added.
The press conference was organised by Bangladesh
Visually Impaired Peoples Society (VIPS) in cooperation with Sightsavers International Bangladesh at Dhaka Reporters Unity ahead of the International Literacy Day today to draw the attention of the government to Braille system of education for visually impaired students.
The speakers said only four percent of visually impaired children get chance for education when the government is committed to ensure education for all by 2015 as per
Dakar summit of2000.
Lamenting on the government's attitude towards the people with disabilities, VIPS President Golam Mostafa suggested that like all other children, the children with disabilities should be brought under the education ministry instead of the social welfare ministry.
In fact, the government itself believes like other people in the society that the people with disability especially the visually impaired are
not capable of being established in the society, he said, adding that the government believes that mercy and kindness are enough for them.
Executive Director of the Centre for Disability in Development (CDD) AHM Noman Khan said educational materials for the visually impaired children are produced in the country but there is no proper distribution system on behalf of the government.
If the education ministry takes a comprehensive plan to provide education to children with disability including the visually impaired children then the problem will be solved to a large extent, he added.
Country Director of Sightsavers International Bangladesh DrWahidul Islam said the non-government organisations can make a model for providing education to visually impaired children but it should be the responsibility of the government to implement the model across the country.
"Education for visually impaired children is a must if the government wants to ensure education for all." he said stressing coordination between the ministries of education and social welfare.
In a keynote paper, VIPS General Secretary Mosharraff Hossain Majumder put forward some proposals including training for the teachers at primary, secondary and higher secondary level to handle the students with disabilities.