India, March 14 -- The Punjab education department has started collecting data to assess the number of special educators currently employed and the total count of children with special needs enrolled in government schools.

The move comes following the Supreme Court's March 7 directive asking all states and Union territories to notify by March 28 the sanctioned posts of teachers for special children and immediately begin the selection procedure of the same.

The initiative involves collecting data on the number of special educators currently employed and the total number of children with special needs (CWSN) enrolled in the state government schools. The move comes in response to a long-standing issue of inadequate special education teache...