Sibal stresses on need to develop special plan for development of PwDs
April 18th, 2011 - 9:37 pm ICT by ANINew Delhi, Apr 18 (ANI): Union Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal today said that there is a need to develop a special national plan for the skill development of people with disabilities (PwDs). Addressing the first meeting of the Round Table Conference on Educational Development of Women, SCs/STs and PwDs here, Sibal said: “This plan is required in order to give them greater opportunity but care will have to be exercised that it is not done at the cost of normal education.”Sibal also underlined the need for the setting up of residential schools and colleges for the disadvantaged in order to address the issues of lack of access and quality. He desired that the Secretaries, Higher Education and School Education and Literacy set up a task force to prepare a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for this which could be sustainable. Sibal said that in order to address the issue of quality teaching in schools the Ministry will seek, in the next Plan, to expand the scope of the National Mission on ICT to school education also from its current higher education mandate. He also suggested that the Ministry can work on preparing a programme of a national fellowship for vocational and higher education. (ANI)
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