‘Govt plans to give allowance to all disabled people’
The government has a plan to give allowance to all the disabled people across the country, Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed told parliament today.
The minister said this while replying to a starred question placed by opposition lawmaker M Moshiur Rahman Ranga of Rangpur-1 in the House with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
The country has identified nearly 16 lakh 30 thousand disable people and the programme to recognise the disabled people is going on, he said.
Of them, 10 lakhs are getting insolvent disable allowance and other 90,000 disable are getting education stipend.
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