HYDERABAD, Oct 21: The EDO of Community Development Department (CDD) has stressed the industrialists to fix job quota for the disabled persons in their organisations on the pattern of government organisations to help rehabilitate the special people.

The EDO (CDD) Shafaat Hussain Unnar told a ceremony for distributing Eid gifts organised by the Rehabilitation Centre for Physical Handicaps (RCPH) at Qasimabad on Friday that the district government alone despite allocating Rs1.1 million for the disabled could not absorb all of them.

The RCPH, run by the district government, from its own resources provides the disabled lodging, boarding and technical training in different trades including computer literacy.

He urged the private sector to help the government in this noble cause. The private organisations had many jobs which could be performed by the disabled, he said.

Mr Unnar directed the centre to arrange visits of its students to different industries and commercial organisations to give them an idea how these organisations were working. The visits would also create an understanding between them and the organisations and might open up job opportunities for them, he said.

He stressed the other NGOs and philanthropists to come forward to help the special people and asked the RCPH to provide qualitative education and training to its students to enable them to earn their livelihood independently.

He advised the centre to conduct a survey and introduce market oriented training. The EDO promised to resolve all the problems confronting the centre’s management.

Earlier, the centre’s in-charge, Ali Bux Umrani, said that his organisation distribute eid gifts to the disabled enrolled in the centre regularly.

He lauded the services of District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil and DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed for the centre and said that with their help, the centre had been able not only to introduce computer literacy programme but also helped many of its students land jobs.

He said that the centre was planning to enhance its capacity so that it could enrol and rehabilitate more and more disabled persons.