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The philosophy and spirit of EFA has now been endorsed by majority of UN’s member states including India. Even today, in the 21st Century, millions of school going populations (say about 10% or more of the total population) who could contribute to total stock of human resources and knowledge, if rightly enabled through appropriate education in support of modern technology, are excluded form regular school entry and hence ignored in ensuring human right to education, rehabilitation and dignity. They are labeled as children with special needs of various kinds and magnitude.  Placing so much disabled students in segregated schooling is a far cry as special education itself, is comparatively costly and not humane.  New affordable and chief models in organization and service delivery modes are in the stock of human knowledge and instrumentality. The problem could reasonably be contained if the philosophy and process of inclusion could be tactfully injected into the regular educational institutions. Sadly, inclusive education in operational mechanism now suffers from multi-dimensional constraints and invites debate from attitudinal, organizational, pedagogical and professional angles. With the humble object to sensitize the issues, challenges and possibilities of education in inclusive setting among the teachers, educators, professionals, NGOs and researchers and also to help creating an active learning environment in a national forum for enhancing the spirit of Education for All as a concern of human rights of the individuals with disabilities, we solemnly resolve to organize a two-day National Seminar with active support of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (PREM Division), Govt. of India and the University of Kalyani  on July 17-18, 2003. Considering you one of the most active promoters of knowledgebase towards this end, your cooperation in participating the seminar is solicited.

Hopefully, it will be a vibrating common forum of discussion and dissemination of knowledge among the resource teachers, NGOs, personnel from government organizations, university, teacher education institutions, community workers & leaders, etc.  and everybody will be enormously benefited in the two-day National Seminar. A good number of luminaries of the Indian education, so far expected, will find it convenient to grace the academic forum as resource persons and as many as about 250 delegates actively engaged in ‘Inclusion Philosophy and Practices’ from all corners of India will actively participate in the forum of the national seminar to be housed in this Department which has not only made significant contribution in teaching-learning and research but also achieved expertise in holding this type of academic activity supported by its  massive  infrastructure facilities  and professionalism for providing hospitality to our esteem guests. Luminaries such as Prof. N.K.Jangira, Prof. M.N.G.Mani, Prof. M.Mukhopadhyaya, Prof. A.N. Maheswari, Directors, NIOH  & NIMH, Calcutta and other national stalwarts of this field are expected to deliver their scholarly lectures in the interactive forum of the seminar.