Rajasthan Government to Provide Braille Smartphones and Battery-Operated Tricycles to Disabled Students

Last Update:23 November 2024 10:34 IST

The program also includes distributing battery-powered tricycles to students with different abilities, ensuring they have the necessary tools for inclusive education.

This initiative, part of the state’s Special Education Program, aims to provide inclusive education for students with disabilities.

The state government will provide special smartphones with Braille script to visually impaired students of Classes 6 to 12 of government schools, Rajasthan Education Minister Madan Dilawar said on Friday.

Dilawar, who also holds the Panchayati Raj portfolio, was addressing the ‘Sarkar Aapke Dwar Samasya Samadhan’ camp held in a ward under Kota South Municipal Corporation.

Dilawar said that under the state government’s ‘Child with Special Education Programme’, assistive devices are being provided free of charge to disabled students in government schools with the support of the social justice and empowerment department to ensure inclusive education.

Under this program, tricycles are distributed free of charge to differently-abled students. However, the minister added that this time battery-powered tricycles will be provided.

Dilawar said the state government will also provide special smartphones with Braille script free of charge to visually impaired students to help them in their studies.

The smartphones, worth Rs 50,000 each, are an innovation of the education department in collaboration with the social justice and empowerment department.

Interacting with the media on the sidelines of the event, Dilawar also claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win at least five of the seven seats in the Assembly where bypolls are held on November 20.

“After campaigning in five constituencies and consulting my colleagues in the remaining two seats, I predict that the BJP will win all the seven segments and certainly at least five of them,” Dilawar said. he said.

By-election results will be announced on Saturday.

On the state expecting to receive Rs 200 million from Kolkata-based Rajasthani business community for development of educational infrastructure, Dilwar said, “Many government schools are being run from dilapidated buildings. During my last visit, I held talks with the Rajasthani business fraternity in Kolkata. They assured me to support our education sector. “It would not be an exaggeration to say that they have promised assistance of 200 billion rupees for this purpose,” he said, adding that businessmen from the state who have settled in Mumbai have also promised him assistance of 1.25 billion rupees to revive the education sector of Rajasthan.

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