Effective Strategies Promoting Rights of Disabled Students Studying in India

This research paper as entitled “Effective Strategies promoting rights of Disabled Students studying in India” makes an attempt to describe factors or barriers which affect the access of students with disabilities in educational institutions and also tries to understand the fundamental rights and special provisions of provided to disabled students while gaining education. The fundamental rights mentioned in Indian constitution in some ways do not specifically mention the physically handicapped/disabled/Person with Disabilities, while concern were/are made to the educationally, socially, economically and backward sections of society. After Independence, there have been many conventions and Acts, which promoted the PwD in many ways. One of the Sustainable Development Goals clearly mention the right of learners with disabilities as Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning for all in general and for disabled person in particular. National Education Policy 2020 reaffirm that bridging the social category gaps in access, participation, and learning outcomes in school education will continue to be one of the major goals of all education sector development programmes. There may be various Effective Strategies promoting rights of Disabled students studying in India including- Infrastructural, Pedagogical, curriculum, financial supports and etc. So, in this paper basically, an attempt is made to provide/suggest some of the effective strategies for disabled students studying in Indian educational institutions