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Help children with autism flourish: PM

She urges all on 7th World Autism Awareness Day to be sympathetic to them

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the people to help children with autism children flourish their talents, and be sympathetic to them, as all have duties and responsibilities towards them alongside their parents and the state.
"Every person has the right to live with dignity, and the persons with disabilities including autism have the equal right to such dignity alongside leading a healthy life," she said at the inaugural function of the 7th World Autism Awareness Day 2014 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital in the morning.
This year's theme of the day is "We all are for increasing awareness on autism".
From the programme venue, she unveiled the plaques of the foundation stone of the National Disability Complex to
be constructed in city's Mirpur, and declared that the National Foundation for the Development of the Disabled would be turned into the Disabled Development Directorate.
She said balanced development could not be ensured keeping the people with disabilities including those with autism outside the mainstream.
Her government set up the National Foundation for the Development of the Disabled in 1999 to involve the persons with disability in the mainstream of development, she said.
The PM said 73 service and help centres had been set up in 64 districts of the country for providing "one stop" services to the people with disabilities and autism. An autism corner has been launched at every centre, she said, adding that such activities would be expanded to the upazila level in future. Hasina said land had been allocated for the construction of a multipurpose sports complex at Savar in Dhaka for increasing efficiency of the persons with disability in the field of sports and games.
She also mentioned that the construction work of a multipurpose complex for the people with disabilities had started in the capital's Mirpur. There will be arrangements for shelter homes with education and medicare facilities for 275 such people of different classes.
Hasina said her government had taken initiatives for running a trust through the Autistic and Neuro-developmental Disabled Protection Trust Act, 2013 under which some organisations would be set up to ensure life-long accommodation for the
persons with autism.
The PM also mentioned that her government had established the Centre for Neurodevelopment and Autism in Children (CNAC) along with Shishu Bikash Kendra at all medical colleges.
She said her daughter Saima Hossain Putul had been working to organise the neurodevelopment activities at international level as a psychologist.
"Mainly under her initiatives, the Bangladesh government placed a proposal at the 67th UN General Assembly for undertaking coordinated efforts by the government and private sectors about the issues of the persons with disabilities," she said, adding that this proposal was unanimously adopted on December 12,2012.