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(ix) After Orientation Session, session for ‘Sensitization of Departments’ in which heads and

2 nominees from various departments of HEIs such as admissions department, O/o student-
life or campus-life affairs, O/o academic affairs, faculty and examinations cell, IT department
and career & placement cell shall be given 2 hours training in online mode.

(x) Training sessions with heads and 2 nominees from various departments of identified
educational institutions will be focused on sensitizing about the concerns of persons with
specific learning disabilities, rationale for creating inclusive systems for them, policies and

regulatory frameworks, ways to utilize the potential of special students, global best practices,
expectations from the Programme and the manner in which it will be navigated.

(xi) After Sensitization of Departments, specialised session namely ‘Masterclass for Each
Department’ of 2 hours by resource persons/experts will be organized with each department
separately as identified from the respective educational institutions in an online mode. A total
of 5 masterclasses shall be held separately for each department / vertical from the identified
educational institutions having at least 3 representatives from each department/ vertical of the

institutions, in each masterclass.

(xii) The specialized masterclass shall entail introductory and experience sharing session by
expert with the participants, tailor-made presentation to address each department needs,
discussion on the full-scale implementation plan and checklists for each department followed
by question & answer session.

(xiii) After Masterclass for Each Department, ‘Zone-wise In-Person Workshops’, which will be

in offline mode, involving identified educational institutions divided in 6 zones will be
organised to carry out 5 days (including travel) long handholding workshops in each zone. All
HEIs of a particular zone will convene at one common institution. During this workshop, the
key focus will be on reviewing and finalising full-scale implementation plan, handholding,
designing and implementing HEI based intervention strategy. The sessions will be broken
down based on the departments.

(xiv) The 5 days long Programme for each zone shall include 2 days for travel and 3 days

reserved for workshop to all the participants of the institutions categorized in that particular
zone, meeting at a common institution for offline sessions. It will further be divided into half-
day department-wise workshops for HEIs in the given zone at the common institution.

(xv) The handholding workshop will include 4-hour session with each department, discussing
individual institutions survey results, presentation by institutes on their implementation
progress, and charting out an implementation roadmap for each institute, followed by a
question & answer session. 2 resource persons / experts shall visit to facilitate these workshops.

(xvi) Institution-wise session namely ‘Monitoring of Implementation’ shall be organized for

the Heads of the Departments (HoDs) and 2 nominees from each Department (i.e., 5
departments in each institution) in the online mode to guide institutions on monitoring the
progress and solve problems.

(xvii) Finally, a session on ‘Conclusion of Programme’ in which the focus shall be on

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