PESHAWAR: Senior minister for social welfare and special education Sikandar Hayat Khan Sherpao has said the government has planned to establish new schools for the visuallyimpaired people in every division of the province.

`These schools will be extended to different districts with the passage of time in order to facilitate the special people,` he told a ceremony organised at the Blind School in Hashtnaghri for the distribution of computers to schools for special persons.

The ceremony was attended by additional secretary for social welfare and special education department Adil Shah, director for social welfare Naeem Khan and heads of schools for visually impaired people from all over the province.

Mr. Sikandar presented desktop computers to the heads of schools for visually impaired persons saying such people should be equipped with the knowledge of computers, which was direly needed in the modern times.

He said the special people were part of the society so the government would take all possible steps to ensure provision of quality and modern education to them to help become skilled members of the society.

The minister said schools for the visually impaired people had been included in the next annual development plan and they would be established at district levels too.

`It is our social responsibility to ensure that the special and visually impaired people are able to take active part in the society by providing them with quality and technical education,` he said.

Mr. Sikandar said a printing press would be established to publish bool(s for new classes of such schools.

He called for the making of all schools for visually impaired people in the province functional and establishment of a separate directorate for the establishment of new schools for such people.