"As many as 135 special education centres have been established in Punjab to impart education to the special students including blind persons."
Punjab Minister for Special Education Chaudhry Muhammad Shafique said this while speaking in the Punjab Assembly on Thursday.
"Special people are getting special quota in jobs as per the government policy," Shafique said.
"There was three percent quota of jobs for disable persons and in 2015-16 blind persons were also recruited including 23 cane workers, four music teachers and two junior special education teachers."
He further said that 19 government schools are providing education to the 1,824 hearing impaired children including 380 blind children in Lahore district.
He told the House that the government is providing 800 scholarships per month. He said that facilities like books, residence, food, uniform, pick and drop and medical care are being provided to these special children free of cost.
Answering a question in the House, Punjab Minster for Investment, Trade and Industry Sheikh Allauddin said that a budget of Rs 18.08 million has been provided to the Government College of Technology Kamalia during the past five years.
He said the government is providing all-out facilities to the entrepreneurs and investors for the commencement of new business and industries to augment the commercial activities in the country and create new jobs.
He said one window operation is being launched in the country to facilitate the business community for the establishment of new industries. The House also continued general debate on health sector. The opposition members raised concern over the state of affairs in hospitals.