Staff Reporter Special Assistant to CM Sindh on Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Syed Qassim Naveed Qamar has said DEPD is going to establish Five Percent Job Quota Implementation Cell to ensure that job quota for differently abled people is being implemented in letter and spirit in public and private sectors. This he said while presiding over a meeting here in his office Tuesday. Director DEPD Ghulam Nabi Nizamani, Advocate Shabbir Shah, Umair Ahmed and other stakeholders were also present in the meeting. He added, “The aim of establishing Five Percent Job Quota Implementation Cell is to protect the rights of the persons with disabilities in public and private sectors as a number of complaints are being received from certain quarters that five percent job quota for differently abled people, is not being implemented.” Qassim Naveed Qamar said that Sindh was the only province that had increased job quota from two percent to five percent in public and private sectors for differently abled people, adding that we are also drafting rules for Implementation of the said policy. He was of the opinion that through strict policy we could get our objective, otherwise the persons with disabilities might deprived of their due rights. In the meeting several options were brought under discussion regarding Implementation of five percent job quota for differently abled persons in public and private sectors. Qamar stressed the need for changing the general attitude and perception of the public about the differently-abled people. We should provide the persons with disabilities opportunities to grow and help them bring out their hidden talents, he said. The special assistant to the CM informed the event that the Sindh government had taken many initiatives to provide better health care, education and vocational training to the persons with disabilities through educational and rehabilitation centres established across the province. “Special CNICs and disability certificates are being provided to special persons on a priority basis and we are making efforts for the implementation of job quota fixed for special persons in public and private sectors,” he said.
