An amount of Rs 428.390 million has been allocated in the budget 2007-08 for 77 ongoing projects being executed by the Social Welfare Ministry under the PSDP to provide relief to the poor of the country.
Sources told Business Recorder on Friday that the Medium Term Development Framework (MTDF) emphasised equitable social development aiming at translating National Social Welfare Policy and National Policy for Persons with Disabilities and Child Protection into programmes of action with the support of civil society organisations (NGOs).
They said that the National Social Welfare Policy and the National Policy of Persons with Disabilities, approved by the Cabinet, envisaged an action plan of social welfare services for rural areas and enhancing people's access to education, health, income generation and training with efficient utilisation of resources.
There are 12 special education centers for physically and visually handicapped children upgraded from primary to middle level located in Rawalpindi, Quetta, Dadu, Abbottabad, Sialkot, Gujrat, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Sargodha, Jhang, Sukkur and Okara.
The sources said that seven new special education centers had been established at Karachi, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad, Faisalabad, Nawabshah, Mardan and Khuzdar and construction of 5 centers at Gilgit, Kohat, Sibbi, Hyderabad and Hunza would be completed soon.
Eleven community development projects are providing vocational training in the field of knitting, embroidery related skills to females and radio and television repairing at village Noon Islamabad, Ghanche, Astore and District Ghizer in Northern Areas, Kurram Agency and Bajour Agency, they said.
One National Child Protection Center has been established at Islamabad and 12 social welfare medical centers have been established in Fata, Fana and Karachi to help the poor, they said.
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