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1. AHMED BILAL E-15 332
WAQAR AHMED E-15 333
PREVIEW OF SPECIAL
EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN

2. Historical background OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
IN PAKISTAN
• 14th august 1947.
• The Government of Pakistan recognizes its
responsibility to educate the handicapped pupils
first time in report of Commission on National
Education, 1959.
• Education Policy 1972-1980,
• Fifth Five Year Plan (Pakistan
• Planning Commission, 1978), a modest sum was
allocated to special education.

3. Historical background OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
IN PAKISTAN
• During the Sixth Five Year Plan (1983-1988), the
social welfare programmed concentrated on
strengthening existing institutions of social welfare
and special education.
• Federal Directorate General of Special Education
with provincial counterparts was set up in 1985.
• Today a considerable number of special education
institutions are functioning under the control of the
provincial governments for the children having
different disabilities.

4. Historical background OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
IN PAKISTAN
• Recently, the special education
institutions run by the federal
government are devolved to the
respective provincial
governments in the
consequences of the
implementation of 18th
amendment in the Constitution
of the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan.

5. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
• The major objective of the study as indicated above
was bifurcated into following objectives:
1. To present a clear picture of special education services
in Pakistan since its creation in 1947.
2. To provide a basis for decision making for the
formulation of future plans and policies in the field of
special education.
3. To give awareness to society, teachers and especially
special education teachers about the special education
services in Pakistan.
4. To highlight the shortage of existing educational
facilities for disabled children in the country and to focus
the need for more appropriate facilities.

7. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES OF
PAKISTAN
• Report of the Commission on National Education
(1959)
This Commission on National Education was appointed by a resolution
adopted by the Government of
Pakistan on December 30, 1958.
The Commission focused the following
major areas:
i. For the education and rehabilitation of special children,
ii. It was recommended that for almost all of the disability types, the general
education should be combined with vocational education so that the individual may
be equipped to earn his own living and trained to live cheerfully within the limits of
his disability.
iii. The responsibility of society for the education and other care of these children was
highlighted in the report of the Commission.

8. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES OF
PAKISTAN
• The Education Policy (1972-1980)
• In the Education Policy (1972-80), arrangements for
special education for handicapped children were
planned to make by opening new institutions and
strengthening the existing ones, so that the
handicapped children should be provided the
opportunity to become productive and self-reliant
citizens of the country.

9. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES OF
PAKISTAN
• The National Education Policy and Implementation
Programme (1979)
• Policy Statement
In the policy statement, education, treatment,
institutional care and rehabilitation of the
handicapped was stated important moral and
religious obligations as a nation. According to the
policy, the handicapped citizen should be so
rehabilitated as to enable them to enter the main
stream of national life.

10. SPECIAL EDUCATION POLICIES
• As an initial step the Directorate General of Special
Education formulated a National Policy for Special
Education in 1986 and revised it in 1988 to make it
more appropriate for the emerging needs of special
population. After that, a special education policy
was launched in 1999. Recently, Government of
Pakistan has launched a new National Policy for
Persons with Disabilities 2002, which is dynamically
being implemented.

11. National Policy for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, 1986
• The United Nations declared 1983-1992 as the
Decade of the Disabled, which brought into focus
the need to formulate a national strategy to deal
with the problems of the disabled of all categories.
Thus, the Ministry of Health, Special Education and
Social Welfare envisaged the National Policy for
Rehabilitation of the Disabled in December 1986,
and this was in fact the first policy on special
education in Pakistan.

12. National Policy for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, 1986
• The National Policy, 1986 was primarily concerned
with issues such as organizing services for the
disabled and the implementation of programmes,
and paid insufficient attention to the critical matter
of the curriculum.

13. National Policy for Rehabilitation of
the Disabled, 1986
• A review of the 1986 Policy was undertaken in 1988
that refereed to a category-based system of special
education in Pakistan. The five categories of special
needs education were identified in the policy.
According to a survey conducted in
Islamabad/Rawalpindi, the distribution / percentage of
the five different disabilities were:
i) Mental disabled.
ii) Visual impairment 15%
iii) Hearing impairment 9%
iv) Physical disability 33%
v) Multiple disability 19%
vi) Not classified 3%

14. The National Policy for Special
Education, 1999
• The National Policy for Special Education, 1999
• After the National Policy for Rehabilitation of the Disabled
(1986), the Government of Pakistan
• formulated another policy on Special Education in 1999. The
National Policy for Special Education
• (1999) recognized that the process of rehabilitation for many
people with disabilities was an on-going
• one. It focused the need for change in public attitudes to the
disabled and the crucial role of media in
• highlighting the successes of persons with disabilities. The
policy also proposed some monetary
• concessions to be made for the disabled as well as providing
them with legislative support.

15. SPECIAL EDUCATION IN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES OF
PAKISTAN
1959 REPORT OF THE
COMMISSION OF
NATIONAL EDUCATION
1979 NATIONAL
EDUCATIONAL POLICY
AND IMPLEMENTATION
PROGRAMME
1986 NATIONAL POLICY
OF REHABLITATION OF
DISABLED
1999 NATIONAL POLICY
OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

16. Legislation and Policy Reforms
THE DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT AND
REHABILITATION)
ORDINANCE, 1981

17. Legislation and Policy Reforms
• Disabled Persons
(Employment and
Rehabilitation)
Ordinance, 1981:
first constitutional effort on
the part of the state to start
institutional care of the
special persons in Pakistan.

18. THE DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT AND
REHABILITATION 1981
CONTENTS
• 1. Short title, extent and commencement
• 2. Definitions
• 3. National Council
• 4. Functions of the National Council
• 5. Provincial Councils
• 6. Functions of the Provincial Councils
• 7. Meetings of the Councils
• 8. Duties of Secretary
• 9. Appointment of Committee

19. THE DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT AND
REHABILITATION 1981 CONTENTS
• 10. Establishments to employ disabled persons
• 11. Establishment to pay to the Fund
• 12. Registration of disabled persons
• 13. Establishment of training centers
• 14. Establishments to furnish information
• 15. Power to debar further employment
• 16. Appeal
• 17. Fund
• 18. Power to exempt
• 19. Delegation of power
• 20. Penalty
• 21. Cognizance of offences, etc
• 22. Power to make rules

25. National Plan of Action for Persons with Disabilities, 2006
• The National Plan of Action (NPA) suggests
measures to operationalize the
• National Policy for the Persons with Disabilities
2002.
• The NPA identifies 17 critical areas of intervention
from assessment of the
• magnitude of the problem to service delivery
systems.
• It spells out short term steps to be
• taken by the end of June 2009 and long term
measures to be adopted by July, 2025.

26. National Plan of Action for Persons with Disabilities, 2006
The short term measures listed in
the NPA
1.Establishment of data bank.
2 . Reduction in incidence of
disabilities through primary and
secondary preventive care.
3. Promoting inclusive education.
4. Expanding and reinforcing
vocational training; employment
including self employment.
5. Legislative support to persons
with disabilities.
6. and boosting up public opinion
and increasing support to NGOs.
The long term objectives reflected
in NPA
1.creation of barrier free physical
environment for PWDs in all public,
private and commercial buildings
and public places and revision of
construction bye laws.
2. Effective enforcement and
expansion of social assistance and
social security programme under
the provisions of existing laws
would be beneficial.

27. Special Citizens Act, 2008:
• Special Citizens Act, 2008 seeks to provide the
accessibility to disabled citizens at every public
place, with regard to allocation of seats in public
transports, provision of facilities on footpaths for
wheelchairs and blind persons.
• Similarly, while crossing the roads special citizens
must be given priority.
• Public Transporters shall be made bound to allocate
seats for special citizens and provide easy access to
their seats in the public transport.

28. Special Citizens Act, 2008:
• Under this act, government shall make the
concerned authorities bound, before the
construction of buildings in public or private sectors
particularly in Educational Institutions, Banks,
Hospitals, Shopping Malls, Police Stations, Airports,
Railway Stations, Bus Stops, Hotels and at every
public place to provide the facility of access of
wheelchairs.
• The act also binds concerned authorities to take
necessary steps to provide maximum facilities on
footpaths for the wheel chairs and blind persons.

29. Special Citizens Act, 2008:
• Under the law, special persons should be given
priority while crossing the roads and traffic police
should be responsible for its implementation.

30. Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement) Act,
2009:
• Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement)
Act was promulgated in 2009 which seeks to
provide confessional rates to special citizens in all
modes of public and private transport as these
citizens even if working, are unable to earn
sufficient to pay standard fares. Under this act, air,
railway and other transport authorities are bound
to charge less/half rates from disabled persons.

32. Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement) Act,
2009:
Duty Free Import of Car:
• According to the notification issued by the Ministry of Commerce,
the disabled are
• allowed custom-free import of cars of up to 1,300cc capacity for
their personal use,
• subject to certain conditions, such as having a valid driver’s licence
and a verifiable
• income of Rs20, 000-100,000 per month8. Once an applicant has
submitted the required
• documents and been assessed as genuinely disabled by the
Federal Board of Disabled
• Persons, he or she is due an import authorisation certificate from
the Ministry of
• Commerce.

34. Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement) Act,
2009:
• Banking Services:-
• Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education
through State Bank issued special directives to all
national and private banks to permit visually
impaired persons to open their individual accounts.
• The persons with visual impairment would be given
a special cheque books with Braille through which
they could operate their accounts independently
and individually.

35. ATM map for wheel chair user
ATM KEY PAD FOR BLIND

36. Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement) Act,
2009:
• Previously blind persons were not allowed to open
their individual accounts in any bank of the country and
only their joint accounts could be opened which
sometimes create trouble for them in the absence of
some close blood relation.
• Braille information is being produced and, for the first
time, Talking ATMs are being considered for installation
in Islamabad.
• Special ATM cards would be issued to the visually
impaired persons who could operate their account
through their card as well.

37. Special Citizens (Right to Concessions in Movement) Act,
2009:
• Micro Credit Facilities:
• Micro-credit facilities should be provided to PWDs
to promote self-employment opportunities leading
to their socio-economic empowerment.

38. SOME FACTS ABOUT PWD,S IN PAKISTAN
• QUTA SYSTEM:-
• The Supreme Court took notice of a report that
seats reserved for the disabled in 50 government
departments were lying vacant. Aftab Amir, a
representative of National Centre for Rehabilitation
of Disabled Persons (NCRDP) confessed that
Disabled Persons Ordinance has not been
implemented yet properly thus forcing disabled
person for Begging.

39. SOME FACTS ABOUT PWD,S IN PAKISTAN
• Reality of Concession in Fare Rates:
• Pakistan Railway has practically reduced the facility by
not allowing concessions in all trains as matter of
alternate which is really troublesome.
• Furthermore the procedure of receiving concession
every time from commercial office is really
troublesome both financially and otherwise moreover
Railway has no commercial offices in all the Towns, as
such the Blind Citizens of those Towns and Cities can
not avail the facility so alternate arrangement be made
to avoid injustice.

40. INITIATIVE OF GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

41. 1981
• THE DISABLED PERSONS(EMPLOYMENT AND REHABILITATION) ORDINANCE
• 1981
2002
• NATIONAL POLICY FOR PERSON WITH DISABILITY
• 2002
2006
• NATIONAL PLAN OF ACTION FOR PERSON WITH DISABILITIES
• 2006
2008
• SPECIAL CITIZEN ACT
• 2008
2009
• SPECIAL CITIZEN (RIGHT TO CONCESSION IN MOVEMENT)
• TRADE POLICY(DUTY FREE IMPORT CAR)
2015
• KHADMAT CARD
• INITIATIVE OF GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB.

42. INITIATIVE OF GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB

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