Dear All, This has reference to the judgment of CAT circulated by AICB in case title Parul Vs. KVS on the Issue of eligibility of persons possessing degree of B.Ed. in special education for appointment as TGT upto class VIII. We have carefully examined the said judgment and we are of the considered opinion that the said judgment is not in the interest of 100% blind persons. To support this opinion, I would like to invite the attention of all of you to the following findings returned in the said judgment:-
"35. The subjects of Hindi and Social Studies are such in which the teacher concerned may not have to resort to writing on the blackboard for much of his teaching requirements, and, therefore, we do not find that it can be held that visually handicapped persons like the applicants, even though they are having 100% visual handicap, would not be able to teach Hindi and Social Studies subjects. If it was a case of Science or Maths, or any other subject, in which extensive use of writing on the blackboard by the teacher was necessarily required for teaching the students, it may perhaps be held that 100% visually persons may not be able to perform such a task of teaching those subjects. It is also acceptable that 100%VH candidates may perhaps not be able to teach classes IX-X even in the simple subjects, but the posts in question appear to be concerned with only teaching upto class VIII." It is also noticed that the judgment has thus enlarged the scope of controversy to return a finding about non-suitability of 100% blind to teach even simple subjects from Class IX onwards and also to teach subjects upto class VIII other than Hindi and Social Studies. It is also noticed that notification of identified posts issued U/S 32 of Disability Act was not at all brought to the notice of the Tribunal resulting into such unwarranted and injurious finding. All of you would agree that the teaching posts from class IX onwards (both TGTs and PGTS) have been declared identified as suitable for 100% blind as well. In view of the gravity of the matter, NFB has filed a review application for recall of the said findings on behalf of Parul whose O.A. on the said issue is already pending before CAT which is being argued by the undersigned. With regards, (S.K. RUNGTA) General Secretary National Federation of the Blind Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
