Question

Read the passages carefully and answer the questions that follow: (12+8)

1. Education is the beginning of empowerment. It is a key to happy and satisfactory life for the special

children, who are cruelly segregated from the society. In India, there are around 35 million disabled

children but less than one percent have access to education. The most pressing need is to bestow the

precious gift of education on them and let them be the bearer of torch towards the path of progress.

2. Special children, without education, are a burden on their families as well as society. The crude

discrimination between normal and abnormal children leads to severe psychological disorders, giving

birth to frustration which we all know, is not healthy for any progressing nation. Several NGOs are

working towards the upliftment and better-ment of such children, but again a grave problem that is faced

by the volunteers is lack of motivation in such children and even their families. Those who are from the

well-to-do families may not find themselves in this menace, but those belonging to the lower economic

section feel that the effort to obtain education is simply wastage of time and energy not to say anything

about money.

3. Another fact or which is hindering the path of education for such children is the lack of opportunities or

facilities available in schools. Even if the parents do send such children to school, the schools

themselves are sadly lacking the facilities to cater to their needs. The government has started the

‘Integrated System of Education’ that enables the disabled to study with normal children in normal

circumstances with few facilities for them. Yet again we find psychological barriers amongst impaired

children that they cast themselves in a hard mould. Special schools have also been established by the

government and NGOs to meet specific needs of such children but their number is pitiably low as

compared to the normal schools.

4. There is an urgent need to strike at the roots of this neglect to enable the disabled.

-Kavita Goel (Offspring), The Times of India
(What is the hindrance on the path of education for ‘special’ children)​

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