Delhi government and MCD on Monday assured the Delhi high court that specially-trained teachers would be appointed for differently-abled children in all primary schools saying they are already being recruited.

The city government counsel told justice Indermeet Kaur that Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board (DSSSB) has already advertised for recruitment of 858 special educators to teach differently-abled children in its schools.

The Board has fixed October 24 as the date for start of receiving applications and November 17 as last date for filing them, the counsel added.

The MCD counsel too told the court that the civic body also has decided to recruit 1790 special educators for its schools and the requisition for the same would soon be sent to DSSSB after considering the UPSC's draft recruitment rules.

The UPSC, meanwhile, said it has already sent the recruitment rules to MCD and it is now for the civic agency to initiate the recruitment process

To this submission, the court directed MCD to comply with its previous order for appointing teachers for differently-abled children and sought compliance report of its order by January 23, 2012.

The court issued the direction while hearing a plea to launch contempt of court proceedings against Delhi government and the concerned MCD officials for defying the court's 2009 order for recruiting special teachers for differently-abled teachers in the schools run by them.

The court had earlier issued notices to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and the DSSSB on delay in posting at least two special teachers for differently-abled students in each of the government and MCD-run schools.

The court had issued notices after Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) submitted that a proposal for recruitment of special teachers was sent to the UPSC which however has not been given a green signal till date.

The plea to launch contempt of court proceedings had been plea filed by Social Jurists, an NGO, through counsel Ashok Aggarwal alleging a division bench had on September 16, 2009 ordered Delhi government and MCD to ensure each of their schools had at least two special teachers and teaching aids for students with disabilities.

But the same had not been ensured till date, Aggarwal had alleged in his plea.