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    "id": 42076,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/42076/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 40,
        "legal_name": "Atanas Manyala Keya",
        "slug": "atanas-manyala"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, consequently, tax exemption certificates have been issued to PWDs in the public, private and self-employment and the National Council for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD), together with stakeholders, are creating a lot of public awareness on this provision of the Act. (ii) Mr. Speaker, Sir, Section 13 of the Act provides for reservation of 5 percent of all casual, emergency and contractual positions in employment in the public and private sectors for PWDs. Until the last financial year, 2009/2010, not much had been done regarding this provision, except creation of awareness of the key employers, which include the Public Service Commission and the Teachers Service Commission, who have since operationalised this requirement during recruitment. The NCPD carried out a pilot survey in the 2009/2010 financial year to establish the number of PWDs employed in the Ministries of Gender, Children and Social Development, Education and Medical Services. It was established from the survey that the Ministries had 160, 698, and 38 employees with disabilities respectively. These represented 9 percent, 14 per cent and 0.20 percent of employees in that order. In the current financial year, 2010/2011, one of the NCPD performance targets is to establish the total number and percentages of PWDs employed in the Civil Service."
}