The Delhi High Court has summoned the principal secretary of education to appear before it on Monday, in a contempt case filed by the parent of a differently-abled child regarding facilities in schools for differently-abled children. http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/delhi-high-court-raps-govt-for-not-verifying-facilities-for-differently-abled-kids-in-city-schools/ During Friday's hearing, the court of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice Vipin Sanghi pulled up the Directorate of Education (DoE) for failing to verify the facilities available at the city's private unaided schools for differently-abled children.
The court had issued orders in September and again in November to the DoE to complete the verification procedure and submit a report. However, the DoE, in an affidavit, told the court that the inspection process had not been started. The court said it would exercise contempt jurisdiction since the government did not seem to be following its orders. The court had issued similar orders for appearance of the principal secretary earlier. But, it had exempted him from appearance after the DoE assured that all steps were being taken to ensure that differently-abled children get admission in nursery and that facilities for them are provided in schools. DoE's latest affidavit, however, stated that "the process of verifying facilities in private schools will begin after March 2015, once the checklist is sent from the office of Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI)... Delhi Assembly polls can also be declared at any time and staff of the respondent department is to be deputed for that purpose too". DoE also stated that it shall "immediately cooperate" with the RCI and the disabilities commissioner to secure the services of trained experts, who can evaluate the facilities. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Clean India Campaign: Let us also chip in! Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
