ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mohammad Sadiq Sanjrani was surprised to learn that special persons’ access to the Parliament building was not easy.

The chairman ordered the administration to immediately designate parking areas on the parliament precincts for persons with disability.

He also instructed the Senate secretary that all access points within the Parliament and Parliament Lodges should be made friendly to special persons and instructions should be sent to the relevant government departments, says a press release issued by the Senate Secretariat.

“[The chairman] reiterated that it is our duty to look after and take care of persons with disability and their integration in the society should be our guiding principle; this is not philanthropy but a responsibility,” read the press release.

When contacted, CDA Member Engineering Sajjad Zaidi said the civic agency would provide all facilities to special persons.

“There is a need to designate parking areas with proper colours for special persons,” he said and added that CDA after conducting a survey would start the project to make the building special persons’ friendly, he said.

“We will construct ramps, etc., to facilitate the special persons,” he said.

“I will not say that there is no facility at all, but yes, it is our duty to provide decent and easy access to disabled persons to all floors of the parliament buildings,” he said.—A Reporter