IMPHAL, July 5: The State Mission Authority and the District Project Officer, Imphal West SSA under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan conducted a free distribution programme of aids and appliances to 454 Children With Special Need (CWSN) at Lamyanba Sanglen today. Speaking at the function as chief guest, Kh Radhakumar Singh, Deputy Commissioner/Chairman (DBE) said there is a need to find out the actual figures of the CWSN population so as to ensure that the aids and appliances reach them properly to help them live their lives a little more comfortably.Further seeking help of the general public in determining the population of the CSWN, he said such programmes’ as today’s will continue.Speaking at the function Joyrani, Assistant State Co-ordinator SSA, SMA said the District Project Officer (SSA), Imphal West with the support and guidance of the State Mission Authority Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Manipur, has been conducting identification of Children With Special Need (CWSN) who are admitted in schools and otherwise.
She further said that the identification starts from the school level to the cluster level. The children suspected to have mild degree of abnormality such as slow in learning, not attentive, not responsive to the teachers and physical deformities are referred to medical camps consisting of officials from the Rehabilitation Council of India and State Medical Board at the Block levels.Altogether 2010 children have been screen in the last two years of which the medical board has confirmed 454 as CWSN and recommended for regular use of aids and appliances for them to be able to continue their education, she continued.She further that with this small step of assistance it is hoped that the inequality between a normal child and differently abled children may be removed, and that these CWSN will be able to join the mainstream under the provision of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (rules of 2010).
