skill development of people with disabilities (PwDs). This is required
in order to give them greater opportunity, but care will have to be
exercised that it is not done at the cost of normal education," Union
Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD) Kapil Sibal stated.
Sibal was speaking while chairing the first meeting of the Round Table
Conference on Educational Development of Women, scheduled Castes (SC),
Scheduled Tribes (ST) and PwDs.
The HRD minister underlined the need for the setting up of residential
schools and colleges for the disadvantaged in order to address the
issues of lack of access and quality. He desired that the Secretaries
of Higher Education, School Education and Literacy set up a task force
to prepare a Public Private Partnership (PPP) model for this which
could be sustainable.
Sibal said that in order to address the issue of quality teaching in
schools the Ministry will seek, in the next plan, to expand the scope
of the National Mission on ICT to school education also from its
current higher education mandate.
He also suggested that the ministry can work on preparing a programme
of a national fellowship for vocational and higher education.
Among those who attended the Round Table included Prof. Kancha Ilaiah
(former HoD of Political Science at Osmania University), Sonali Khan
(Country Director at Breakthrough India), Dr. Mary E. John (Director
at the Centre for Women's Development Studies), Dr. Mithu Alur
(Founder Chairperson, ADAPT), Dr. Achyuta Samanta (Founder, Kalinga
Institute of Social Sciences), Anshu Vaish (Secretary, School
Education and Literacy) and Vibha Puri Das (Secretary, Higher
Education).
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