Lok Sabha Question No. 214 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-09-14
Subject: Teachers Training for Disabled Students
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Achyutananda Samanta

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 214 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.09.2020

## Teachers Training for Disabled Students

## 214. SHRI ACHYUTANANDA SAMANTA:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  aims  to  introduce  a  mechanism  for  training  teachers specially for  students with disabilities and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) the details of alternative homeschooling mechanisms that are accessible to a student with disabilities; and
- (c) considering that according to the 8th All India School Education Survey (AISES) out of    58,76,273  teachers,  only  80,942  (1.32%)  teachers  have  received  training  in inclusive  education,    whether  the  Government  has  any  plans  of  providing  training programmes to teachers which  specifically focuses on inclusive education and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF EDUCATION

## (SHRI RAMESH POKHRIYAL 'NISHANK')

(a) There  is  a  proper  dedicated  mechanism  to  provide  teachers  training  under  the Centrally  Sponsored  Scheme  Samagra  Shiksha.  This  teacher  education  programme  is recurrent at block/cluster levels with the support of SCERT, SRGs, KRPs, etc. and integrated with  the  on-going  in-service  teacher  education/training  schedules  in  DIETs  and  other Institutions. Teacher education modules at NCERT, SCERT, DIET and BRC level includes suitable components on education of children with special needs.

Further,  the  Department  has  launched  National  Initiative  for  School  Heads'  and Teachers' Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA). It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and school principals at the elementary stage. The concerns of Children with Special Needs  (CWSN)  are  also  addressed  along  with  other  to  integrate  their  concerns  within education system.

(b) Under the  scheme,  the  intervention  for  home  based  education  is  provided  to  those children  who  have  severe  intellectual  and  physical  disabilities  and  who  cannot  access neighbourhood school owing to their condition. The child is recommended home schooling after  a  comprehensive  assessment  by  a  team  of  doctors  and  specialists.  Under  Samagra Shiksha, during the year 2020-21, an outlay of Rs 2588.06 lakh covering 1,12,748  CwSN has been approved for home based education in all States and Union Territories.

(c) In order to provide qualitative education to differently-abled students, 424285 general teachers have been provided training for addressing the needs of differently-abled students. Apart from the above, 28285 dedicated special educators have been recruited by all the states and UTs who work on itinerant mode for addressing the scholastic and co-scholastic needs of differently abled students in government and government aided schools in the year 2018-19. The  details  of  general  teachers  who  have  been  given  training  on  curriculum  adaptation including learning disabilities under Samagra Shiksha are given at annexure-I.

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## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (c)  OF  LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 214 TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.09.2020 ASKED BY SHRI ACHYUTANANDA SAMANTA, M.P. REGARDING 'TEACHERS TRAINING FOR DISABLED STUDENTS'.

## General Teachers trained on curriculum adaptations.

| Sr. No.   | State/UT                 |   Total Trained Govt. Teachers (CWSN) |   Total Trained Aided. Teachers (CWSN) |   Total trained teachers (Govt.+Aided) |
|-----------|--------------------------|---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| 1         | Andaman &Nicobar Islands |                                   110 |                                      0 |                                    110 |
| 2         | Andhra Pradesh           |                                   518 |                                    135 |                                    653 |
| 3         | Arunachal Pradesh        |                                   422 |                                      3 |                                    425 |
| 4         | Assam                    |                                 11363 |                                     83 |                                  11446 |
| 5         | Bihar                    |                                 11232 |                                     71 |                                  11303 |
| 6         | Chandigarh               |                                   478 |                                     28 |                                    506 |
| 7         | Chhattisgarh             |                                 12995 |                                    253 |                                  13248 |
| 8         | Dadra &Nagar Haveli      |                                    82 |                                      0 |                                     82 |
| 9         | Daman &Diu               |                                   109 |                                     35 |                                    144 |
| 10        | Delhi                    |                                  1298 |                                    224 |                                   1522 |
| 11        | Goa                      |                                   188 |                                    321 |                                    509 |
| 12        | Gujarat                  |                                    65 |                                    783 |                                    848 |
| 13        | Haryana                  |                                  1344 |                                     11 |                                   1355 |
| 14        | Himachal Pradesh         |                                  1379 |                                      0 |                                   1379 |
| 15        | Jammu And Kashmir        |                                  1152 |                                      1 |                                   1153 |
| 16        | Jharkhand                |                                  4422 |                                     91 |                                   4513 |
| 17        | Karnataka                |                                186282 |                                      0 |                                 186282 |
| 18        | Kerala                   |                                  1958 |                                   4298 |                                   6256 |
| 19        | Lakshadweep              |                                    25 |                                      0 |                                     25 |
| 20        | Madhya Pradesh           |                                 14179 |                                    103 |                                  14282 |
| 21        | Maharashtra              |                                    39 |                                   7747 |                                   7786 |
| 22        | Manipur                  |                                    82 |                                     15 |                                     97 |
| 23        | Meghalaya                |                                   274 |                                    159 |                                    433 |
| 24        | Mizoram                  |                                   175 |                                     85 |                                    260 |
| 25        | Nagaland                 |                                   220 |                                      0 |                                    220 |
| 26        | Odisha                   |                                   162 |                                      7 |                                    169 |
| 27        | Puducherry               |                                   250 |                                     24 |                                    274 |
| 28        | Punjab                   |                                  6917 |                                    362 |                                   7279 |
| 29        | Rajasthan                |                                  8062 |                                      0 |                                   8062 |
| 30        | Sikkim                   |                                   170 |                                      0 |                                    170 |
| 31        | Tamil Nadu               |                                 82185 |                                  20255 |                                 102440 |
| 32        | Telangana                |                                  1319 |                                     96 |                                   1415 |
| 33        | Tripura                  |                                   415 |                                      4 |                                    419 |
| 34        | Uttar Pradesh            |                                 18388 |                                   1172 |                                  19560 |
| 35        | Uttarakhand              |                                   965 |                                     59 |                                   1024 |
| 36        | West Bengal              |                                 18600 |                                     36 |                                  18636 |
|           | Total                    |                                387824 |                                  36461 |                                 424285 |

Source: UDISE+ 2018-19