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Unit 27: The IED Scheme

• Identification of children with special needs: Identification of Children with special needs Notes
(CWSN) from 0-14 age group done every year through House Hold Survey in all 70 district.
• Integration of Children With Special Need (CWSN); Medical assessment Camps; Providing
assistive devices to CWSN; Teacher's Training on IED; 45 Days Resource Teachers training;
Development of Instructional Materials are the major activities of IED.
• This is a centrally sponsored scheme under which the Central Government will assist the States/
Union Territories in its implementation on the basis of the criteria laid down.
• It is proposed to provide educational facilities under this scheme for children with disabilities
who can be integrated in general schools.
• The scope of the scheme includes pre-school training for the disabled children and counselling
for the parents.
• The implementing agency should set up an administrative cell under an officer not below the
rank of Deputy Director to implement, monitor and evaluate the programme.
• To identify disabled children in the blocks/districts where the scheme is yet to be implemented,
the first task should be to provide suitable orientation to all school teachers in the area for
conducting a survey to identify disabled children in general schools.
• The State-level cell will make arrangements for equipment, learning materials, staff etc. in
order to provide education to disabled children. The cell will also set up the machinery for
assessment of the disabled children.
• The Coordinator of the programme will be responsible for arranging for the assessment of the
children and monitoring their progress on ongoing basis. A three-member assessment team,
comprising a doctor, a psychologist and a special educator will be formed.
• A disabled child may be given the following kinds of facilities at the rates prevalent in the
State/UT concerned.
(a) Actual expenses on books and stationary up to Rs. 400 per annum.
(b) Actual expenses on uniform up to Rs. 200 per annum.
(c) Transport allowance up to Rs. 50 per month. If a disabled child admitted under the
scheme resides in the school hostel within the school premises, no transportation charges
would be admissible.
(d) Reader allowance of Rs. 50 per month in case of blind children after Class V.
• The State Governments/UT Administrations should formulate their programmes, make
assessment of their financial requirements and submit detailed proposals for the next financial
year to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of Education, Government
of India) by the end of December every year.
• The voluntary organizations desirous of implementing the scheme should send their applications
on the prescribed proforma through the concerned State Government/ UT Administration (with
a copy endorsed directly to the Ministry). The State Government should give its views within
a period of three months regarding the organizations' eligibility, suitability, relevance of the
proposal and the capacity of the agency to implement it.
• 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.
• 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.

27.9 Keywords

• Equipment : The things that are needed for a particular purpose or activity.
• Orientation : The type of aims or interests that person or an organizatioon has.
• Council : A group of people who are elected to govern an area such as a city.

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