Addressing Diversities for Equitable and Inclusive Education at FoundationalStage with reference to NEP 2020 and NCF-FS, 2022

National education Policy 2020 and National Curriculum framework 2022 presents special emphasis on achieving the goals of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy. The idea of inclusive education is strengthened. As of now, children with special needs are accessing education through the mainstream schools and still facing many challenges. This includes lack of good physical infrastructure, educational materials, assistive devices, and lack of trained teachers in the area of special education, easy access to classrooms, and other services; however, language is one of the important components which is directly related to growth and development of a child. Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDGs), as per NEP 2020, can be broadly categorized based on gender identities (particularly female and transgender individuals), socio-cultural identities (such as Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, and minorities), geographical identities (such as students from villages, small towns, and aspirational districts), disabilities (including learning disabilities), and socio-economic conditions (such as migrant communities, low income households, children in vulnerable situations, victims of or children of victims of trafficking, orphans including child beggars in urban areas, and the urban poor). NEP-2020 further stats that presently there has been a severe scarcity of skilled inclusive education teachers in India, despite various measures being taken. As per NCF-FS 2022, We, the teachers of India, must take the responsibilities to think and implementevery programme with the concept of Universal Design of Learning (UDL), which will serve the needs of children of inclusive classroom with linguistic diversity. This paper brings the guidelines and directions presented by NEP-2020 and RPWD Act-2016 and effort has been made to bring most suitable ways of creating Linguistically Inclusive Primary Classrooms.