Patna: The Patna high court on Tuesday said that depriving  the visually impaired students of their right to avail  education through specialized teachers not only violates  the National Disability Act passed by the Parliament  in 2016 but it also depicts the ‘inhumanity of the state’.   By recording such ‘considered opinion’, the high court  directed the chief secretary (CS) of state to furnish a  composite report within four weeks, depicting a ‘true and  clear picture’ about the education system imparted to all  visually impaired students up to Class XII in Bihar .
A  division bench of acting chief Justice Chakradhari Sharan  Singh and Justice Jitendra Kumar while hearing a PIL of  Raj Kumar Ranjan further directed the CS to furnish a report  on the issues related to identification of visually impaired  children by state, the qualifications of special teachers  appointed for such children and adolescents and also  addressing the issue of alarming drop outs of the such  children in Bihar from 27,200 (up to Class VIII) to 2300  (Class XII).
“We expect that within next four weeks the   state government will visualize the concern of this court  while going through our orders which says about inadequate  implementation of the provisions of National Disability Act  of 2016,which deals with the visually impaired children,” 
the division bench added in its order.
The court  remarked, “Dearth of specialized teachers have deprived the  poor blind students from their special education leaving them  begging on roads. Its lack of political will of state which  has made the government insensitive to such pathetic  situation of the disabled.”
State counsel PK Verma informed about the latest policy of state government adopted for educating visually impaired students who are now to get education in general schools through 1027 special educator -cum- rehabilitation operator, having been trained by National Rehabilitation Council, who are functioning in Kasturba Gandhi Girls High Schools and other schools in all 38 districts of the state.

The petitioner's counsel Brishke  Sharan Pandey highlighted the relevant provisions of the  disability laws for visually impaired.

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