Srinagar: Over
24,000 children with special needs have been enrolled in government-run schools
and instructions have been issued to make all the existing schools
disabled-friendly, the state government said on Thursday.
In a written
reply in the state Assembly Srinagar, Social Welfare Minister Sajjad Ghani Lone
said, “As many as 30,237 CWSN (children with special needs) have been
identified during 2015-16 and out of them, 24,363 have been enrolled in
government schools.”
Responding to
a question by PDP member Anjum Fazili, the minister said 59 girls under CWSN
have also been enrolled in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidalaya (KGBV).
Besides this
regular schooling, home-based education is being provided to CWSN by resource
teachers engaged under Sarva Shikasha Abhiyan, the minister said. He also said that
there are 18 schools for specially-abled children functioning in the state run
by various non-government organizations.
In addition,
the government has established one residential school for blind at Roop Nagar
in Jammu with an intake capacity of 25 inmates.
There are 18
schools for specially-abled children functioning in the state run by various
non-governmental organizations.
A composite
regional centre has been established at Srinagar by Union Ministry of Social
Justice and Empowerment for special education of persons with disabilities, he
said.
Instructions
have been conveyed to school education department and higher education
department from time to time to make all the public buildings including
schools, colleges and universities disabled-friendly, he said.
A total of 144 high and higher
secondary schools across the state were selected under the scheme, he said,
adding while 73 such schools were selected from Kashmir region, 67 were
selected from Jammu region. Four such schools were selected from Ladakh region,
the minister said. He said that 16 schools were selected from Jammu district,
followed by 12 each from Anantnag and Baramulla and 10 from Kupwara.
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