The petition also added that both students, while being promoted to next class every year, are hardly being taught anything
A fight by Mamata Devi, to get Delhi government and MCD schools to appoint special educators for her two mentally challenged sons, has now snowballed into a fight by several students who are now demanding the same for themselves.
Justice Indermeet Kaur converted a petition filed by Mamata Devi into a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) after holding that it was not the problem of just the two boys, but an issue with thousands of students who are not getting special educators in state-run and MCD schools. The court, while converting this into a PIL, sent the matter to the bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Harishankar who will now hear the matter on October 23.
The petition, filed through advocate Ashok Agarwal, had alleged that 16-year-old Satyam and nine-year-old Shubham were not being taught anything in school due to the absence of special educators. It contended that due to the above-mentioned reasons, Shubham, studying in class IV at an MCD school in Katwaria Sarai, in south Delhi, had stopped going to the school.
The petition also added that both students, while being promoted to next class every year, are hardly being taught anything. Agarwal, in his petition, said that this is a violation of the fundamental right and the Right to Education (RTE) Act. He demanded that proper education should be imparted to both the brothers.
The petition had also alleged that the Delhi government has not implemented the directions of the court to appoint special educators in the state-run schools. The petition, which was filed by the boys' mother Mamata Devi, said that both her sons were mentally disabled and she wants to educate her sons under all circumstances. But due to the absence of the special educators in the schools, she has not been able to do so.
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