The government is giving allowance to 1.55 million insolvent physically challenged people aiming to ensuring their overall development.
Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed gave the information while replying to a question from a lawmaker in the Jatiya Sangsad on Monday.
“The government has allocated Taka 13.90 billion in the current 2019-20 fiscal for insolvent physically challenged people and each person gets Taka 750 per month,” he said.
The minister said that Department of Social Services has been operating various programmes for distressed, underprivileged and marginalised section of people including transgender and bede and section of people living backward corner.
He informed the House that the government is working to ensure education, training, creating employment and overall development of distressed, underprivileged and marginal section of people.
The minister said that the government allocated Taka 600.0 million under insolvent physically challenged allowance in 2008-09 for 200,000 insolvent physically challenged people and during that period each disabled person got Taka 250 per month.
In 2018-19, the government brought 1.0 million insolvent physically challenged people and gave Taka 700 to each person per month, he said, adding that the total allocation was Taka 8.40 billion.
