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Can students with mental, visual and hearing impairment be clubbed with others, asks SC -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was in for a surprise on Monday as it found that Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, mandated no special educational techniques for students suffering from different kinds of impairment and to make them part of mainstream education.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said it defied common sense that students with mental, visual, speech and hearing impairment could be put with other students in an educational institution as per the mandate of the law while agreeing that physically challenged students could be clubbed with other children to get education in regular schools.

The bench was of the view that special students would require education in special schools with specially trained teachers.

With advocate Ashok Agarwal pointing out the mandate of the law, the bench asked Uttar Pradesh's additional advocate general Aishwarya Bhati to file an affidavit signed by the education secretary detailing the steps taken by the state "to work out the provisions of the Act".

"The said authority, while filing the affidavit, shall keep in view the language employed in Section 3 of the Act which deals with equality and non-discrimination. The affidavit shall also contain the number of disabled children in the state and the categories of disability," it said.

Bhati told the court, "Sixteen special schools have been made functional in the state with appointment of teachers. The special schools are imparting education to visually impaired, hearing and speech impaired, mentally disabled and physically disabled children. These schools have residential facilities and they also admit students who belong to non-residential category."

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