Suraiya became the first blind woman to get a PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago after graduating from Jahangirnagar University as its first blind student. Unsurprisingly, she got her PhD for her research into ‘Understanding the Rights of Women with Disabilities in Bangladesh’
The allocation of social safety net for persons with disabilities is only 2.5 percent of the total budget for social safety net programmes and 0.42 percent of the total national budget.