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Special Education

Notes If any agency is already receiving or expecting to receive grant from some other official source for a
project for which application is made under this scheme, assistance under this scheme will be made
after taking into the consideration the grant received, or likely to be received for such other official
sources. It should also be ensured that an agency already in receipt of a grant from any other official
source, Central or a State, should not transfer any part of that liability to a grant to be sanctioned
under this scheme.

What are the facilities are to be grouted by Govt. of disabled children?

27.7 Conditions of Grant to Voluntary Organisations

(i) The grant-receiving will be required to execute a bond on a prescribed form. The bond should
be supported by two sureties if the agency is not a legal entity.
(ii) An agency in receipt of financial assistance shall be open to inspection by an officer of the
Union Ministry of Human Resource Development or the State Education Department.
(iii) The accounts of the project shall be maintained properly and separately and submitted as
and when required. They should be open to check by an officer deputed by the Government
of India or the State Government. They shall also be open to a test-check by the Controller
and Auditor General of India at his discretion.
(iv) The audited accounts together with the utilization certificate in the prescribed form duly
countersigned by the Chartered Accountant are required to be furnished within six months
in respect of a preceding year or after expiry of the duration for which grant is approved.
(v) The-agency shall maintain a record of all assets acquired wholly or partially out of Government
grant and maintain a register of such assets in the prescribed proforma. Such assets shall not
be disposed of, encumbered or utilized for the purposes other then those for which the grant
was given, without prior sanction of the Government of India. Should the agency cease to
exist at any time, such properties shall revert to the Government of India.
Self Assessment
3. State whether the following statements are True or False:
(i) The state government should give its views within a period of three months regarding the
organizations eligibility suitability, relevance of the proposal and capacity of agency to
implement it.
(ii) An agency in receipt of financial assistance shall not be open to inspection by an officer of the
(union Ministry of Human Resource Development or the state education department.
(iii) The voluntary organizations desirous of implementing the scheme should send their
applications on the prescribed proforma through the concerned state government.

27.8 Summary

• The Government of India, therefore, has brought the education of disabled group of children
for special attention to achieve the goal of education for all.
• The IED scheme financed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of
India, and the scheme is being implemented by the department of school education since 1983.
At present it is part of the directorate of Primary Education and receiving substantial financial
support under SSA.
• The main objective of the IEDC (Integrated education for disabled children) scheme is to provide
education for the disabled children along with normal children in normal schools.

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