Ensure jobs for physically challenged women
Roundtable urges govt
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday urged the government to ensure employment opportunities for the country's physically challenged women and implement the reserved quota for them in government jobs.
They also demanded 15 percent allocation for physically challenged women in the government's safety nets programmes.
Besides, they urged the women and children affairs ministry to ensure ten percent quota for physically challenged women under its different training programmes.
Access Bangladesh Foundation, with the assistance of Manusher Jonno Foundation, organised the roundtable on the “Role of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs for the Development of the Physically Challenged Women” in the capital's Biam auditorium.
Given proper education and employment facilities, the physically challenged women of the country could contribute to its development, said speakers.
Some physically challenged women, who participated in the discussion, alleged that the government facilities available for the physically challenged people are limited.
Moreover, a large portion of the government allocation for these people is being spent in the urban areas than the rural areas, they alleged.
They also alleged the government officials responsible for supervising women development issues at upazila and district level of being negligent to their duties.
Ashraf Hossain, director general of the Department of Women Affairs, said necessary steps will be taken after discussion with the government high ups to help the physically challenged women to earn their livelihoods by themselves.
Mahua Paul, vice-chairperson of Access Bangladesh Foundation, presented a keynote paper at the roundtable.
CM Tofael Sami, chairperson of Access Bangladesh Foundation, chaired the programme while Najrana Yasmin Hira, programme officer of Manusher Jonno Foundation, and poet Kazi Roji also addressed it.
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