Transcription of MENTAL RETARDATION - Rehabilitation Council of India
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MENTAL RETARDATION - Rehabilitation Council of India
MENTALRETARDATION225 IntroductionIdentification of persons with MENTAL RETARDATION and affording them care and management fortheir disabilities is not a new concept in India . Theconcept had been translated into practice overseveral centuries as a community status of disability in India , particularlyin the provision of education and employment forpersons with MENTAL RETARDATION , as a matter of needand above all, as a matter of right, has had itsrecognition only in recent times, almost after theenactment of the Persons with Disabilities Act(PWD), IndiaHistorically, over different periods of timeand almost till the advent of the colonial rule inIndia, including the reigns of Muslim kings, therulers exemplified as protectors, establishingcharity homes to feed, clothe and care for thedestitute persons with disabilities. The communitywith its governance through local elected bodies,the Panchayati system of those times, collectedsufficient data on persons with disabilities forprovision of services, though based on thephilosophy of charity.
226 Post-Independent India–Current Scenario Establishment of Special Schools Article 41of the Constitution of India (1950) embodied in its clause the “Right to Free and
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