Appropriate Governments and local authorities to provide free education, etc., to children with disabilities

Appropriate Governments and local authorities shall (a) ensure that every child with a disability has access to free education in an appropriate environment till he attains the age of eighteen years; (b) endeavour to promote the integration of students with disabilities in the normal schools; (c) promote setting up of special schools in Government and private sector for those in need of special education, in such a manner that children with disabilities living in any part of the country have access to such schools; (d) endeavour to equip the special schools for children with disabilities with vocational training facilities.