AICTE to transform affiliated institutes to model institutes for disabled children

AICTE to transform affiliated institutes to model institutes for disabled children

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New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is planning to transform some of the affiliated institutes into model institutes for physically challenged students. The institutes will ensure the inclusivity of physically challenged students in the mainstream education system. The Office of Accessible Assistive Technology (OAAT) will be set up in each of the model institutes that will be instrumental in helping disabled students.

The initiative by the AICTE, a national-level body that regulates technical education in India, will involve making infrastructural and administrative changes to existing institutes.  Different categories such as Cognitive, Locomotive, Visual and Hearing Impairment have been slotted to help the students. AICTE aims to create at least 5 model institutions by the end of this year.

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Speaking to a reputed media channel, Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, AICTE, says, “We aim to transform one AICTE approved institution in each state into model institutes where we will fund and provide them all kinds of technological interventions for supporting students with all types of disabilities like People with Disability (PwD), Specific Learning Disability (SLD) and Dyslexia. It will be a remarkable case of access to higher technical education in the spirit of Antyodaya (last man).”

“Some of the good-ranking institutions are undergoing an accessibility audit and thereafter selected instituted would be given up to Rs 5 crore each after these institutions undergoing an accessibility audit and thereafter selected institutes would be given up to Rs 5 crore each after these institutions fulfill the audit requirements for physically challenged students. We plan to set up five institutes by the end of this year. A committee comprising of some IIT professors and experts who have worked in the area of disability is conducting the audit of the identified institutions. Inclusivity of disabled students into mainstream education is in sync with the objectives of NEP 2020,” added Mr. Shahasrabudhe.

(Inputs from Times of India)

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