Free education for children with benchmark disabilities

30.(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the rights of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, every child with bench-mark disability between the age of six to eighteen years shall have the right to free education in a neighborhood school, or in a special school, if necessary.
(2) The appropriate Government and local authorities shall ensure that every child with benchmark disability has access to free education in an appropriate environment till he attains the age of eighteen years.

Social Security

 
23. (1) The appropriate Government shall within the limit of its economic capacity and development formulate necessary schemes and programmes to safeguard and promote the right of persons with disabilities for adequate standard of living to enable them to live independently or in the community.
 
Provided that the quantum of assistance to the persons with disabilities under such schemes and programmes shall be at least twenty-five percent higher than the similar schemes applicable to others.