Write different issues relating teaching and learning in Maharashtra
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To study the problems of lecturers who are teaching English in colleges of rural areas of western Maharashtra.
Sixteen years ago, Maharashtra (pop. 112 million) — India’s most industrialized state accounting for 25 percent of the country’s industrial production — became the first state of the Indian Union to declare special education for challenged children a major priority and announced sweeping changes (Maharashtra has 600 special schools exclusively for children with various types of disabilities). However, despite a Bombay high court ruling in 2006 making it mandatory for schools to screen students for learning disabilities (LD) and provide facilities to them, an estimated 350,000 children with minor and major symptoms of LD in Mumbai are facing major inclusion and infrastructure problems compounded by a severe shortage of special needs teachers.
On October 1, parents of a seven-year-old autistic student (names withheld) of Mumbai’s well-reputed Jamnabai Narsee School (estb.1971), applied to the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MSCPCR) for a stay order after the school’s management asked them to transfer their child to another institution. In their application, the parents said the school insisted on their child’s transfer despite the fact that their son — diagnosed with “a few traits of autistic spectrum disorder’’ — has been a student of the school since 2007.