KATHMANDU: Various stakeholders have suggested the authorities concerned to incorporate the issues of persons with disabilities in school curricula, arguing that they are the issues all should be aware of.

Speaking at the third annual general meeting of Shruti Sanstha, an organisation working for welfare of the people with hearing impairment, they argued that by doing so, it could change the way the differently-able people are being treated with.

President of the National Federation of the Disabled Nepal (NFDN), Sudarshan Subedi, hailed the revised draft of the new constitution for ensuring the rights of women, Dalit, indigenous groups and disabled ones and urged the government to mention all sorts of disabilities in the new constitution so as to protect the rights of people with all sorts of disabilities.

Other speakers including Chairperson of Shruti Sanstha, Nita Kesari Bhattarai and Chairman of the Disabled Human Rights Centre, Jagdish Prasad Adhikari spoke of the need to ensure the rights of people with all kinds of disabilities.

At the programme, it was shared that there is no exact data of the people with hearing difficulties available as they were listed into the category of deaf.

However, people with different sorts of disabilities account for around two per cent of the total population of the country, according to the latest census of 2011.

The government was also urged to make education more inclusive for those with hearing impairment and arrange a translator/interpreter to help them develop their personality.