Rajasthan Government directs schools to conduct "Special-Needs Child" Survey starting December

The survey will be conducted at the block and district level to ensure that all students are included in the survey and their information will be submitted by the schools.

The Government of Rajasthan has directed all schools in the state to conduct Children with Special Needs (CSWN) survey. The government has asked the schools to conduct this survey from the month of December this year to January 2022. Under this survey, boys and girls with special needs of all 21 categories of disability will be identified by schools. The survey will be conducted at the block and district level to ensure that all students are included in the survey and their information will be submitted by the schools.

Schools have been asked to enroll all the identified special needs boys and girls, and they will have to make an entry on Shala Darpan, Unified District Information System for Education (UDISE) Plus, and Management portals.

The official communique released by Rajasthan council of school education informs, “In the RPWD Act 2016, the survey work of special needs boys and girls (CWSN) of all 21 categories of disability is to be done as a campaign and is to be done compulsorily at every school level from December 2021 to January 2022.”

After identifying these students, a consolidated list of details has been asked to be maintained at the block and district levels. The list then will be shared by the district authority to the consolidated council's email at rajsmsaed@gmail.com. The list should be shared in the set format released by the Rajasthan education council.

Rajasthan's education council in its statement said, “By dividing the entire area of the block amongst themselves, survey identification and enrollment and various surveys by special teachers/reference person (CWSN) working under the Chief Block Education Officer (CBEO). Entry will be done on the portal.”

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