The second decade of this century has often hailed as the decade of aspirations, ambitions and development, yet relinquished the phenomenon of inclusion at the back benches of the develop - mental discourses. Disabled persons constitute fifteen percent of world population. The stigmatizing terminology 'mental retarda - tion' was in use world over till late 20th century. This term has been gradually replaced by 'intellectual disability' in most of English speaking countries very recently.
