Special Education Laws in India
Keywords:
Disability in India, inclusive educationAbstract
There were around 30 million children in India who were diagnosed with some kind of impairment, as stated in a report compiled by UNICEF on the state of disability in the country. According to a different survey, the sixth All-India Educational Survey, out of the 2,000 million school-aged children in India (ages 6–14), 20 million need special needs schooling (Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), 2000). Despite the fact that there is a significant gap between these two sets of figures, it is abundantly obvious that a significant proportion of pupils have special needs and are in need of proper educational programmes. The Government of India (GOI) launched policy changes and plans for special needs and inclusive education after becoming aware of the huge number of people in the population who have special needs and the regional inequities that exist.
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