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The COVID pandemic has resulted in the nationwide closure of educational institutions. As far as India is considered, there has been a wide acceptance and employment of technology and digital resources to transact curriculum and other learning activities to the students who are geographically separated from their teachers and school (Dhawan, 2020). The greatest challenge of the teachers is to address the needs of the pupil, especially Children with Special Needs (CWSN), to an extent to which it had taken place in brick-and-mortar classrooms. In this scenario, they are deprived of a great deal of attention, care and support from their teachers, peers and school authorities and it is important to uplift them as a part of the learning community similar to that of other students. This paper discusses the National Education Policy 2020 on inclusiveness, program offered by the Government of Kerala to address the special learners in this pandemic situation and also the perception of parents of CWSN about the influence of the government initiative on this marginalized class of students.