SRJIS/BIMONTHLY / DR. AASAVARI ARVIND SHINDE (2552-2558) JAN – FEBRUARY, 2015. VOL-III/XVI www.srjis.com Page 2552 CHALLENGES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF RIGHT TO EDUCATION ACT (RTE) FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATION- A SURVEY Dr. Aasavari Arvind Shinde Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai ‘Everyone has the right to education.’ This UN recommendation has been reinforced in the provision of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act 2009, which came into effect in India on 1 st April 2010, enshrining in law for the first time the rights of all India children aged between six and 14 years. The RTE Act, though deserves due credit for laying down in fairly specific terms states responsibility towards education, it would be appropriate to examine the challenges faced by the principles and concern authority to provide fess elementary education to the children aging between six to fourteen years to old. Present research study has tried to explore the challenges faced by the principles for implantating RTE Act for Children with hearing impairment in Zila Parishad regarding access to education and infrastructure. Keywords: Right to education, children with hearing impairment, access to education and infrastructure facilities Introduction: Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act was enacted in August 2009. The new act has made impressive progress in terms of educational growth for the children. The Act has provisions for a free and compulsory education between the ages of 6-14 years up to their elementary education. Currently the SSA is implemented as one of India’s flagship programme for elementary education. This implementation had given a new thrust to the education of Children with Special Needs (CWSN), without their inclusion the objectives of universalition of elementary education could not have achieved. According to RTE each and every child with disability has to have access to education in their neighborhood schools. Hence, universal access to schooling requires Abstract