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More Inclusive Education Needed To Make Employment Goals
By Dave Reynolds, Inclusion Daily Express
January 7, 2008

CHENNAI, INDIA--If there is to be any chance for adults with disabilities in India to be fully included in the workplace, state governments must work toward more inclusion of students with disabilities in schools.

That's the message Dr. Manoj Kumar, Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, delivered during a brief visit to the state of Tamil Nadu on Monday.

The Hindu noted that a 2005 survey of 1,400 households in Tamil Nadu showed that 45 percent of children with disabilities were not in any school.

India's Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act of 1995, requires governments to identify jobs that people with disabilities can perform, and to fill three percent of jobs with such workers.

State governments have argued that many of those positions are vacant because there are not enough people applying for them.

Mr. Kumar said the problem has been in matching the jobs to the individuals.

Related:
"States urged to make education more inclusive to help the disabled" (The Hindu)
http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/08/stories/2008010854860500.htm

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