Inclusive Education in India

India is one of the few countries world over where the education of children with special needs doesn’t fall within the purview of human resource development ministry. It is generally the burden of the omnibus ministry of social justice and empowerment, the prime focus of which is rehabilitation, not education. In fact, till today it does not have education as part of its agenda and the issue of education of children with disabilities remains imperceptible, hidden from the public domain, a private problem for families and NGOs to deal with. It’s time that governmental agencies as well as mainstream institutions woke up to the reality that segregation of children with challenging needs is morally unjustifiable and a violation of human rights. Indeed there is no other way to provide education to 36 million disabled children. Seventy-eight percent of Indian population lives in rural areas without provision for special schools. Therefore, inclusive schools have to address the needs of all children in every community and the central and state governments have to train their teachers to manage inclusive classrooms

Site Specific Ground Response and Liquefaction Analyses for a Project Site in New Madrid Seismic Zone

ABSTRACT: With the rapid pace of industrialization, structures are being designed and constructed in the flood plains of major rivers. In high seismicity areas, such as the New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), International Building Code (IBC) recommends that a site specific ground response analysis be performed if the site soils have potential for liquefaction. For projects in the NMSZ one of the major challenges for performing site specific seismic analysis is the lack of recorded ground motion data. Therefore, synthetic time histories need to be generated using the attenuation models applicable to the region. This paper provides detailed information about site specific shear wave velocity measurements using downhole method and development of site specific seismic parameters to be used for the design of structures at a project site in the bootheel area of Missouri, USA which is located in the NMSZ