Hi,
I am pasting here guidelines issued by RBI that MS. Pamnani sent to the list a
few months ago. She worked for bringing this about so you can ask her more on
it.
RBI Guidelines for Visually Impaired Candidates
CO. HRDD No. 4976/05.10.01/2007-08
November 19,2007
Shri Rajinder Sood
Under Secretary to the GOI
Ministry of Finance
Department of Financial Services
(Banking Division)
New Delhi - 110001.
Dear Sir
Letter from the Office of
the Chief Commissioner for Persons with
Disabilities regarding complaint of MS. Kanchan Pamnani. Advocate
Please refer to your letter No.F.3/6/2007-SCT(B)
dated November 6, 2007
on the captioned subject.
In this connection we advise that the Reserve Bank of India Services
Board is providing the facility
of scribe to the Visually Handicapped
(VH) candidates in the written examinations conducted by the Board. The
following guidelines are issued in this
regard.
(i) VH candidate should arrange for his/her own scribe
at his/her own cost.
(ii) The academic qualification
of the scribe should be
one grade lower to that of the candidate and should not be more than
graduation.
(iii) The scribe will be
required to furnish his
particulars in the prescribed format (copy enclosed) with photograph at the
time of examination. The particulars furnished by
the scribe will have to
be certified by him/her as true and correct before commencement of the
examination. This will be in I the form of joint undertaking
with
candidate. The VH candidate must bring the format duly completed in all
respect along with his/her admission letter at the time of the examination.
(iv) The VH candidate shall be responsible for any
misconduct on the part of scribe brought by him/her.
(v) Conversation
between the candidate and the scribe
should not disturb in any way the peace in the examination or the other
candidates seated in the examination hall/room.
(vi) Such candidate who uses a scribe shall be eligible
for extra timeof20 minutes for every hour of examination.
(vii)
Violation of any of the instructions shall. entail
cancellation of the candidature in addition to any other action that may
be taken by the Reserve
Bank of India Services Board/Bank against the
candidate/scribe. The candidate/scribe shall be subject to the rules of
the examination.
(viii)
The VH candidate can use the services of only one and
the same scribe for all the papers of the examination.
Yours faithfully,
(T. M. Abraham)
--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Vamshi. G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Vamshi. G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [AI] Writer in MBA exams
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 10:46 AM
> Hai Roopakshi
>
> What do you mean by competitive exams? Does it include bank
> entrance
> exams also? Should the scribe be one year junior or one
> grade junior?
> What about the percentage of marks the scribe has obtained
> in
> comparison with that of the candidate?
> Please clarify the above issues.
> Good luck. bye.
>
> Vamshi. G
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> On 9/20/08, Nishant Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Hi friends,
> > I am appearing for CAT 2008 & other MBA exams, but
> I don't know the
> > requirements for the scribe. I know that some visually
> impaired
> > students have answered such exams with the help of
> scribe. Kindly
> > provide me information about the requirements of the
> scribe.
> > I will be thankful for help.
> > Nishant
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> > Ph: 9801307764
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