The Punjab government is spending more than Rs 400 million during current fiscal year on the completion of various projects of special children in the province. Official sources told Business Recorder here on Sunday that under a network programme, educational institutions were being established for special children in 91 tehsils out of which 35 such schools had already been set up at different tehsils of the province, adding the establishment of remaining 56 institutions for special children would be accomplished during the current fiscal year.
The provincial government had focused its special attention on the social welfare of the special children in Punjab, the sources said, adding the hearing aid instruments facility had been provided to 3,000 children free of cost in various parts of the Punjab, ahile the brails, uniform, text-books, and transportation facilities were being provided free of cost to the special children in the province.
Sources said that hostels for handicapped and special children would be constructed in various district headquarters of the Punjab and first hostel of its kind was being constructed in Mianwali costing Rs 10 million.
In addition to this, the government had allocated Rs 150 million during current fiscal year for undertaking the training programme for the teachers engaged with special education in the province, the sources added.
They said a special drive would be launched to create awareness among the masses and especially the parents of special children about the importance of education of special children in the province.
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