Hi, I really don't know the extent of disability color blindness is considered, but perceiving colors wrongly may cause problems while editing I guess. As far as I know, color blind persons are not issued driving licenses as they cannot differentiate between red and green lights on a traffic signal. Experts may throw more light on the subject. Regards, Sandeep
On 2/15/17, Kotian, H P <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > Something to ponder: can a colour blind person be treated as blind? What > percentage of disability can be attributed to him? > > Experts may throw some colour to this question? > Harish. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of turab chimthanawala > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 4:32 PM > To: accessindia <[email protected]> > Subject: [AI] (AI) Bombay High court recalls order, allows FTII to reject > colour blind student for editing course > > Reported in the Times of India dated 6th February 2017 > > In a setback to a colour blind youth, Bombay high court recalled its order > directing Film and Television Institute of India to grant him provisional > admission to the film editing course. > A bench of Justices Shantanu Khemkar and Prakash Naik took note of FTII's > submission that since the first semester was over, and also its examination, > it was not possible to accommodate Patna-based Ashutosh Kumar directly into > the second semester which had started. The court's order came on a review > petition filed by FTII, which urged the court to recall its January 18 order > to admit Ashutosh to the three-year post-graduate diploma course. > Ashutosh applied to FTII and appeared for an exam in April 2015. When the > results were out in June 2016, he was selected. When he reported in July for > orientation, he was told to do a medical examination, which revealed he was > suffering from colour blindness and low vision. > A report from the Pune government hospital said his colour vision was > partially defective. FTII then wrote to Ashutosh that he was not eligible > for the course and why candidates suffering from colour blindness were > unsuitable for editing. His petition said under Right to Information, he > learnt from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute that it does not > discriminate against candidates with colour blindness or partial defect. > After he got relief from HC, FTII moved a review petition. Its petition > stated that if colour blind persons edited films it would lead to a loss of > crores of rupees for producers. > Ashutosh's advocate argued that FTII's stand that the first semester was > over was known at the time of the January 18 order and no case was made out > for its review. But the judges found merit in FTII's submission. 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