Sixty-two mentally challenged students studying in two government-run schools in Rohini were left without teachers after their school reopened on 1 July.
The children belong to Asha Kiran Home, an NGO, and were studying in Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya and Government Senior Secondary School both located in Rohini Sector I.
The situation arose after services of the three teachers employed to teach these children at the two schools were terminated by the government. The teachers were working on contract.
Social jurist Ashok Aggarwal said,
‘The services of these three special educators have been discontinued by the Delhi government’s directorate of education without making any alternative arrangement for teaching
these 62 mentally challenged children.’
‘It is needless to say that the aforesaid action of depriving these 62 school-going of education is a violation of their human and fundamental rights and The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 and Persons with Disability (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995,’ Aggarwal said.
Aggarwal also informed that as many as 270 special educators who had been employed on contract basis to look after the education of disabled students studying in government and MCD schools were not re-engaged when the schools reopened on 1 July after the summer vacations. It has resulted thousands of children with disabilities high and dry.
The children belong to Asha Kiran Home, an NGO, and were studying in Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya and Government Senior Secondary School both located in Rohini Sector I.
The situation arose after services of the three teachers employed to teach these children at the two schools were terminated by the government. The teachers were working on contract.
Social jurist Ashok Aggarwal said,
‘The services of these three special educators have been discontinued by the Delhi government’s directorate of education without making any alternative arrangement for teaching
these 62 mentally challenged children.’
‘It is needless to say that the aforesaid action of depriving these 62 school-going of education is a violation of their human and fundamental rights and The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 and Persons with Disability (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act 1995,’ Aggarwal said.
Aggarwal also informed that as many as 270 special educators who had been employed on contract basis to look after the education of disabled students studying in government and MCD schools were not re-engaged when the schools reopened on 1 July after the summer vacations. It has resulted thousands of children with disabilities high and dry.