Inclusive Education for Children with Special Needs: Perspective, Practices and Challenges in India

National Education Policy has rolled out in 2020, it tries to address recommendations of Civil Societies, Research Institutes and most important the United Nation’s declaration on Rights of Children, Rights of Persons with Disabilities and The Fundamental Right of Education for All. Govt of India was shaping the ideas of Inclusive Education since last five years, in the year 2016 India has passed, The Rights of PersonsDisabilities Act. There it was clearly mentioned that Education Should be Provided to The Children with Disabilities through Inclusive Manner and Segregated and Integrated Education Systems should be abolished. The problem arises when the Policy Makers try to overlook the child as an individual entity, theChildren with Special Needs (CWSN) all are unique, their problems are unique, their “needs’ are unique. Definitely Education is fundamental right and Segregated and Integrated Systems are old fashioned now, but we need to think about the child as a whole, we need to think about his, physical, behavioural, neurological, orthopaedical issues. These problems got increased in last two years due to breakout of Covid-19, like every child, CWSN were forced to stay in home, they got detached from all the therapeutic and academic facilities, it was difficult for all the children, but somehow the schooling systems tried to provide them education through online manner, but therapies and one to one/face to face education cannotbe provided to them and it just worsen their situation. In post covid scenario, if we forget to incorporate proper supportive systems under one roof or through proper referral system, then their parents may be forced to find out those Specialized Professionals Supportby themselves and child and the child may be excluded from the so called “Inclusive Educational System”.This study tries to find out evidence-based policy documents from different counties, international NGOs and UN agencies to find out the way to make this newly adopted educational system truly inclusive.