Nadra to hold camps for people with disabilities in all districts of Sindh

The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) will gradually organise special camps in all districts of the province to help people with disabilities in getting computerised national identity cards (CNIC).

This was stated by Syed Qasim Naveed Qamar, the special assistant to the Sindh chief minister on empowerment of special persons, while he was presiding over a meeting on Sunday. The Sindh government has been taking steps to facilitate people with disabilities who wanted to acquire CNICs, he said.

Secretary for the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Khalid Chachar, Deputy Secretary Shahzaib Shaikh and other officers attended the meeting. Nadra has already organised a special camp in Karachi to help people with disabilities. The meeting was informed that in collaboration with the empowerment of persons with disabilities department, the authority would establish more such camps in the province, the second of which would be opened in Tando Mohammad Khan on Monday (today).

The special assistant to the CM assured the participants at the meeting that the provincial government was taking all measures to provide relief to the differently-abled children and persons and establishing camps for issuance of the CNICs to them was one such recent initiative in this regard.

The meeting was informed that as many as 28 centres had been established across the province, of which five were situated in Karachi, to provide special certificates to persons with disabilities. Those certificates would officially specify the state of disability of each of the persons with disabilities in order to help them obtain government jobs as per the quota reserved for them.

It should be mentioned here that to spread awareness about the issue, the government published advertisements in all the leading newspapers in Sindhi, Urdu and English languages to highlight its initiatives for the persons with disabilities.

Qamar also had another meeting with Khalid Mehmood, director general Public Private Partnership Unit of the Sindh finance department, and Yasir Khokhar, the director finance of the unit.

It was decided in the meeting that 15 special schools in the province in Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Mirpurkhas, Badin, Thatta, Dadu, Sanghar, Shikarpur, Nawabshah, Sukkur, Larkana, Naushehro Feroz and Qambar-Shahdadkot, would be handed over to a non-government organisation which would run them and impart high quality education and welfare facilities to the enrolled children.

The special assistant to the CM expressed hope that the private sector would continue to cooperate with the provincial government in its projects related to children with disabilities.