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SANGSAD BHABAN, June 20, 2023 (BSS) - Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman 
Ahmed today said the registered number of disabled people of the country is 
30 lakh 31 thousand and 270.

The social welfare minister said this while responding to a star-marked 
question made by M Mojaffar Hossen of Jamalpur-5 at the question-answer 
session which was tabled at the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) here with Speaker Dr 
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.
 
Programme on registration, identifying and providing identity cards to the 
disabled people at the district and upazila level across the country is going 
on by the Social Welfare Department as per the Persons with Disabilities 
Rights and Protection Act 2013 and Rights and Protection of Persons with 
Disabilities Rules 2015.
 
Under the programme, he said various information including the number and 
types of people with disabilities also being protected in Disability 
Information System (DIS). 

The registered disabled persons in the country have reached 30,31,270 till 
June 12, 2023.