Children with Special Needs (CwSN) in Government and Government aided schools without showing any discrimination Orders issued

Providing Admissions to Children with Special Needs (CwSN) in Government and Government aided schools without showing any discrimination Orders issued – Reg.

Ref:-1. D.O. letter No. 3-5/2021-IS.18 of the Additional Secretary of

Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education,

New Delhi dated on 1st August, 2022

2. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 dated 0n 27th

December, 2016

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Attention of all the District Educational Ofcers & Ex- Ofcio District

Project Coordinators and all the Additional Project Coordinators of

Samagra Shiksha in the State is invited to the references cited and are

informed that the Additional Secretary of Department of School Education

and Literacy, Ministry of Education, New Delhi requested for maintaining of

pupil teacher ratio (CwSN: Special Educators) in Elementary and

Secondary schools vide reference 1st cited.

In the reference 2nd cited, the Government of India issued orders for

providing various provisions to Children with Special Needs in Rights of

Persons with Disabilities Act-2016. The Act clearly stated that I) admit

children with special needs without discrimination and provide education

and opportunities for sports and recreation activities equally with others

and II) ensure that the education to persons who are blind or deaf or both

is imparted in the most appropriate languages and modes and means of

communication in chapter-III 

In point number 31 (I) in Chapter-VI of RPWD act-2016 it is

mentioned that “notwithstanding anything contained in the Rights of

Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, every child with

benchmark disability the age of Six to eighteen years shall have the right

to free education in a neighborhood school, or in a special school of his

choice which was mentioned in point number 31 (I) in Chapter-VI of RPWD

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