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A gamechanger for inclusive education?
It began as a complaint in the Supreme Court about inadequate facilities in sixteen special schools in the State of U.P. Rajneesh Kumar Pandey’s case has now resulted in the top court issuing landmark directions to all 36 States and Union Territories to recruit special educators, adequate in number as well as in qualifications, for […]
April 23, 2025
Accommodating IDDs in employment: A Primer / Guidebook
This Primer / Guidebook from the Disability Law Initiative is entitled “Reasonable Accommodation for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Employment – Learnings from Advanced Societies.” Many individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in India, with the support of their caregivers, seek integrated employment to realize their best potential. The key to this is reasonable accommodation […]
February 18, 2025
A triumph for Delhi school teachers with disabilities
16th October 2024. There are almost two thousand teachers with disabilities in Delhi government schools, and yet they are inadequately represented in the higher teaching cadres. Now, after several representations by an association of teachers with disabilities in consultation with the Disability Law Initiative, the Delhi Government has decided to provide them the benefit of […]
October 9, 2024
How Disability Commissioners protect entitlements
June 6, 2024. The Central and State Disabilities Commissioners are a first line of relief for people with disabilities to realize their rights and entitlements under the 2016 Disabilities Act. But some government departments and agencies regard the directions passed by the Commissioners as mere recommendations that they need not comply with. In a recent […]
June 6, 2024
Hearing the hearing impaired in public places
December 7, 2023. Recently in September, the Indian Supreme Court made headlines by permitting a hearing-impaired lawyer to present her case in court with the help of a sign language interpreter. In another case involving hearing impaired litigants, the Delhi High Court directed its officials to ensure that court proceedings were accompanied by sign language […]
December 7, 2023