The Bombay high court has asked the Union government to file an affidavit by December 9, informing it about the recommendations it proposes to make for establishing learning disability centres across Maharashtra.
The division bench of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice Anil K. Menon issued these directions while hearing a petition filed by Dr Haresh Shetty, a psychiatrist, seeking a direction to the government to help children suffering from learning disability.
The bench also asked the state government to issue advertisements so that people at large are made aware of this peculiar problem of learning disability. The bench observed, “Very often, it is found that children with learning disabilities are not properly diagnosed and such children lag behind in comparison to other students and their parents as well as teachers and their school mates do not treat them properly. This may create trauma this may have an adverse impact on the psychology of child.”
Government pleaders Geeta Shastri and J.S. Saluja submitted a report to the high court on progress made towards establishment of learning disability centres at government medical colleges and hospitals in Maharashtra.
