The specially-abled students of the State are affected by lack of teachers to teach them and as per the provision of Right to Education (RTE) Act the State Government should employ two teachers in every Government school for such students.
This demand was made by the Special Teacher Welfare Committee and Pachwadoon Viklang Abhibhavak Sangh on Monday while staging a protest meet outside the State Secretariat.
The protesters assembled at the Gandhi Park in morning and headed for the Secretariat where they were stopped by the police. They later submitted a memorandum to Chief Secretary. They demanded that the Uttarakhand should start recruitment of special teachers for specially-abled kids. The protesters said that in last three years more than 20,000 such students were admitted in the Government schools of the State by them. It was stated in the memorandum that the absence of special teachers is creating serious problems for such kids; they cited recent rape of one such student at Jakhnidhar block of Tehri district as an example of the problem such children are facing. The protesters included Usha Negi, Vinay Kumar Saini, Anant Prakash Mehra and others.