People should be more sensitive towards their children. Special needs and efforts should be made to monitor their health. The State project director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), D Senthil Pandian said this while addressing a meeting of State reference group of SSA on inclusive education here on Monday.
Pandian said that to monitor the activities of the programme, a nodal teacher in every school would be appointed. He said the health check-up of all students should be compulsorily done and for it the education department and Rashtriya Bal Swasthya programme would make joint teams at district level to monitor the progress of the health check-ups in the schools.
The district magistrate, Chief Development Officer (CDO), Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Chief Education Officer (CEO) and district project officer of SSA would be the part of the committee
The State level project specialist Rai Singh Rawat said that after identification of special children the process of early intervention should be completed. The meeting was attended by Additional state project Director MK Sati, State project coordinator RS Rawat and other officers.