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Teachers truly shape the future of our children – and, therefore, the future of our nation. The quality of teacher education, recruitment, deployment, service conditions, and empowerment of teachers is not where it should be, and consequently the quality and motivation of teachers does not reach the desired standards. The motivation and empowerment of teachers is required to ensure the best possible future for our children and our nation. To achieve the goal of universalisation of Education in India, there is an urgent need for additional special educators for certain areas of school education. Over the years, the Government of India came with various policies on education inclusive education such as the RPwD Act 2016. All the policies emphasized the right of the child from diverse backgrounds and abilities to access formal education but still, the disparities continued. After 34 years, finally we have our long waited National Education Policy. This paper is an attempt to discuss the new provisional changes for Inclusive Education in NEP 2020.
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