E-Content guidelines for Children with disabilities framed by the NCERT.

The NCERT has framed some guidelines for developing e-content for children with disabilities and these guidelines would be applicable for the school education system", the Central government told the Supreme Court of India. The Central government has also proclaimed that the National Council of Educational Research and Training will provide face-to-face training orientation courses that would be helpful to teachers as well as other stakeholders from 2022 to 2023 in some states of India. A center in which disabled children study also filed an affidavit in the Court which shows the plea of the Javed Abidi Foundation was looking for the direction to launch some specific guidelines that will ensure that all the children with disabilities will be allowed to participate in every activity of online classes with other students.

Before the benches of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan, this issue had already been placed in the court on Tuesday. Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati was handling the charge of the matter, When the matter of the government's affidavit was filed for appearance was heard. Since it referred to the date of the November 8 verdict delivered by the court in another matter, Advocate Sanchita Ain appeared for the petitioner.

Within three months of the hearing, the apex court had ordered the Centre to seek the application for the mandatory accessibility standards in the verdict. The issue was involved in the petition overlapped by the benches with those who raised in the plea and the apex court had delivered the November 8 statement that "Therefore, it will be appropriate that both these matters are heard together and considered simultaneously,".

When the verdict was pronounced then it also sought the apex court registry with the list of the pleas filed by the foundation along with the petition.

The Centre, after submitting the affidavit to the apex court, has stated that for checking the suggestions put forth by the petitioner, it has also suggested the same for the guidelines of inclusive digital education. In February 2022, The Department of Empowerment of Children with Disabilities organized an inter-ministerial committee. 

All 6 committees named University Grants Commission, All India Council for Technical Education, National Council for Teacher Education, NCERT, the Central Board of Secondary Education, and Rehabilitation Council of India conducted their first meeting regarding the issue raised by the center with a representative dated 25 February 2022.

It had advised those institutions to draft guidelines in the shape of a draft so that actuality can be given to the workable basis of the affidavit as the committee, by focusing upon various aspects such as the physical environment should be accessible, contents must be accessible, and training of teachers should be accessible.

The regulatory bodies of the Indian Education System are UGC, AICTE, and NCTE respectively, regarding universities inclusive of higher educational institutions, technical education, and vocational institutions respectively. Under the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) is the regulatory body concerning rehabilitation education.

It said that "the guidelines as regulated by the UGC and AICTE have already been circulated to all universities/ institutions/ Colleges" and that the instructions and guidelines issued by these organizations will apply to the appropriate categories of institutes of higher learning. "In contrast to the development of e-content for the children with disabilities, NCERT must have brought out guidelines which would be applicable for school education," the court said.