A Case Study On The Role Of Mental Homes For The Education Of Mentally Retarded Children In Manipur

Education is must to all from cradle to grave in the life of a man. Due the importance of it, Government of India has already launched universalization of primary and secondary education throughout the nation for the children of India under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), and Rashtriya Midhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan. The visions of nation can’t be realised by giving education only the normal children as many number of disable children are in the population of India. Thereby, there is need of special education for disable children as they are also children of India having educational rights same to the normal children as per law. But, simply giving special education can’t help the disable children to make them normalise. There is need of quality special education being provided at mental homes in Manipur. This paper examines critically that whether the mental homes in Manipur are providing quality special education in respect of Socio-Economic, Religious background of all students, Birth And Health history, Category of retardation and level of learning, Distribution of students in class wise, Student-Teacher Ratio, Infrastructural Facilities and Teaching-Learning Process etc. This paper also suggested to improve the status of special education being provided at different Mental Homes in Manipur, which will help the progress of inclusive education in Manipur. Key words: special Education, Special School, mentally retarded