Today a hearing took place between Score Foundation and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) regarding the provisions given to disabled candidates undertaking the Central Teacher Eligibility Test on 26th June.
Score Foundation and Prateek Jain, a candidate appearing for the CTET on Sunday, approached the court for quashing the advertisement issued by the CBSE on April 9. The advertisement had not mentioned any measures, such as providing visually challenged candidates with extra time to produce the certificate. Score Foundation’s request that the advertisement be quashed and the exam be stayed until the proper provisions and guidelines for disabled candidates were in place was refused. However, the Court ordered that CBSE should ensure that scribes are provided in all centres, or, in case there is a shortage of scribes at the Examination Centre, the candidates should be allowed to provide their own scribes. The Court also ordered that candidates should not be expected to visit the Examination Centre a day in advance of the examination. Candidates are also only required to provide their disability certificate as confirmation of their disability and need for a scribe and *would not* be required to provide an additional note from a Medical Officer. The Court requested that CBSE publish the news about provisions for disabled candidates in the media. CBSE are also required to inform all Centre Superintendents to provide the necessary provisions to the disabled candidate on the basis of disability certificate produced at the time of the examination, after producing the admit card. The judgement can be downloaded from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32305471/CTET%20Judgment.zip (the file is 6 pages of jpeg images). -- Katie Turner Advocacy Adviser Score Foundation 17/107 L.G.F., Vikram Vihar Lajpat Nagar - 4 New Delhi - 110024 Phone: 91- 11- 26472582 Email: [email protected] Website: www.eyeway.org Like our page on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ScoFou 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
