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Lt Gen Chhibber also underlined the need for creation of special schools to look after the needs of handicapped children. He said though voluntary organisations and the government had taken some steps in this direction, they had not shown substantial progress.

He said there were around 10 million handicapped children in the country and novel courses needed to be run in schools and universities for handicapped children besides providing special training to teachers for the task.

Speaking on the occasion Indian Public Schools Conference chairperson Dr G.D.Bakshi said public schools in the country should emphasise the importance of Indian history, literature and patterns of social life in India and discourge cutting themselves from Indianess.

She said the western culture was fast breeding into the education system in the country and the student community was forgetting its roots. She said dedicated efforts could tackle the situation. She also called for introducing systems in educational institutions whereby every child would be involved in learning as well as teaching.

Dr Bakshi also urged for a clear system of higher education through the establishment of centres of excellence. She said these centres could emphasise on inter disciplinary approaches in teaching and research and could also devote themselves to improving the teaching standards in schools and colleges.

Later PPS Nabha, principal Col (Dr) D.S. Khera proposed the vote of thanks and outlined the theme of the conference which was special education.