Disabled-friendly buildings being built to facilitate special students: Shafaat Ali.

MULTAN -- Director General Special Education Punjab, Shafaat Ali on Thursday paid visit to various special education institutions and reviewed the performance and facilities there.

District Officer Special Education Mian Muhammad Majid briefed the DG Special Education about the departments.

Speaking on the occasion, DG said that the provincial government was taking keen interest to equip special educational institutions with modern facilities and added that Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhary Pervaiz Elahi had directed to take all possible measures for helping persons with disabilities become proactive members of the society.

He directed the teachers to pay special focus on education and training of the kids with disabilities as these kids were also precious asset of the country.

Ali also instructed the teachers to motivate the parents to enrol their children with disabilities in special education institutions where monthly scholarships, uniform, books and pick and drop facilities were being offered free of charge.

He highlighted that special attention was being paid to vocational training of the students with disabilities to strengthen them financially through technical training.

Vocational centers were being established at various cities for kids with disabilities, Shafaat said and added that different facilities would be provided to these children...