Dear members, I wish to uprise all of you to yet another wonderful judgement passed by the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities. In this case, I had complained against the CBSE for non-provision of appropriate facilities for writing entrance examinations (All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination). Actually, CBSE had laid down restrictive conditions regarding the eligibility of scribe, i.e. the scribe should be from Commerce/Humanities stream (without Mathematics). Of course, as is very much understandable that a scribe having no familiarity with Science will not even be able to read out the question properly, forget doing the rough work on my behalf. In this regard, IIT Delhi, CBSE-AIEEE Unit and Ministry of HRD were sent a notice for a hearing today.
Representatives of IIT Delhi and CBSE attended the meeting. The following were the major decisions taken. 1. The Chairman, IIT-JEE 2012 stated that they were finding it difficult to implement the decisions that were taken, i.e. exempting the blind candidates from visual inputs. However, it was reinforced that the decision stands as it is, only the implementation will be further clarified in the next Joint Admission Board meeting slated to be held in August 2012. 2. It was clarified to him that the facility of extra time is applicable not only for subjective examinations, but also objective competitive examinations. Accordingly, he promissed to consider that too. 3. As regards scribe, it was pointed out that a scribe from Commerce/Humanities stream would not serve the purpose, and hence a scribe, one class lower than the stipulated eligibility for the examination, but of the same stream should be allowed. IIT pointed out that their rules provided for the institute to provide the blind or the physically disabled candidate with an appropriate scribe, and did not allow the candidate to bring his/her own scribe. However, I pointed out (siting other competitive examinations such as CLAT, CAT etc.) as to how externally provided scribes did not always work well for the blind candidates. However, he pointed out yet another apprhehension. He stated as to how at times, candidates misused this facility. He was concerned about the authenticity of the certificates submitted by the scribes which substantiated their eligibility for the exam. Nevertheless, he promissed to look into the matter, and this was duly noted in the judgement as well. 4. AIEEE agreed to follow the rules and norms laid down by the IIT Joint Admission Board. 5. These bodies have to notify the final procedure to the Office of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities by September 2012. Friends, I was wondering if there is a way through which the authenticity of the certificates submitted by the scribe could be confirmed. Any suggestions? Any inputs will be highly appreciated, Regards, -Kartik 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
