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Govt mulls providing allowance to people with disabilities

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The government is planning to give allowance to the people with disabilities across the country.

Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed came up with the plan 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 1630,000 people with disabilities and the programme to recognise the disable people is going on, he said, reports BSS.

Of them, 1000,000 are getting insolvent disable allowance and other 90,000 disable are getting education stipend.

 

 

 

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