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NEW DELHI, NOV. 12. The Union Government has informed the Delhi High Court that it has notified the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act of 1995, paving the way for putting in place schemes to provide free education to physically-challenged students by the Union and the State Governments. Counsel for the Union Government informed a Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice B.C. Patel and Justice B.D. Ahmed that the Act was notified on November 4. The Centre had in October this year assured the Court that it would notify the legislation within three months after consultations with the State governments for reaching a consensus on the law. The Bench had been seized of a public interest litigation on the issue by Ashok Aggarwal, a Delhi High Court lawyer, accusing the Union Government of sitting over the legislation for the past eight years after its adoption by Parliament in 1996. The Act provides for a separate transport facility or incentive to parents of the disabled children so that they do not have to face difficulties in attending schools. Besides, it enjoins upon the governments to remove architectural barriers in schools, colleges and other institutions imparting vocational and professional training and supply books, uniform and other materials free to these children. Grant of scholarship, setting up of an appropriate forum for redressal of grievances regarding placement, suitable modifications in the examination system, and restructuring of curriculum are the other provisions of the Act which the governments are required to implement for these children. In the petition, Mr. Aggarwal said that the Delhi Government had failed to revise and bring the Central Government-sponsored scheme called Integrated Education for Disabled Children (IEDC) in conformity with the Act as the benefits mentioned in the scheme were totally inadequate. As a result, disabled students studying in government and MCD schools here were denied the benefits provided in IEDC, he said.
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