RAWALPINDI: The agriculture department, Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), district council and Murree Municipal Corporation have been asked to implement a 3pc job quota for visually impaired people.

The directive was given at the meeting of a committee to monitor job security for special persons in government departments, after a strike call by the Blind Association Punjab in Lahore next week.

The meeting was called to keep the association’s Rawalpindi chapter from joining the strike. The chapter’s president Nabeel Satti was invited to the meeting to inform him of the work being carried out to implement the quota for government jobs.

Additional Deputy Commissioner General Maliha Jamal, Social Welfare Department Director Aslam Maitla, Deputy Director Nabila Malik, Excise and taxation Department Deputy Director Nauman Khalid and other officials attended the meeting.

Ms Jamal asked the government departments to advertise the recruitment of visually impaired individuals against the quota allocated for them.

She said that the district administration had gotten 70 visually impaired people employed in private institutions in the district on daily wages, while 200 people have been employed by government departments in the last two years.

After the meeting, Mr Satti assured district officials that the local chapter would not participate in the strike in Lahore, and would wait for the government to implement the job quota.

Published in Dawn, February 4th, 2018