Would like to suggest a priority list be prepared to specifically target some demands for the time being to ensure implementation and not just discussion.
Demands like Accessible Study Material, Extra Tutorials for special students,Accessible colleges and hostels(all) etc can be targetted first with others to follow. Aditi Bhutani On 1/15/13, ram <[email protected]> wrote: > These demands are quite reasonable and hence should be discussed and > solutions found by DU, instead of bullying and threatening the challenged > students. > regards > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ajay Arora" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 10:15 AM > Subject: [AI] sambhavana: summary of representation > > > summary of demands/issues submitted by sambhavana organisation to > delhi university. > > We emphatically demand:- > • Setting up of functional Enabling Units in all Departments/Faculties > of the University provided for by the UGC under the 11th plan. > • Enabling units must perform the following functions: > • Books and other study materials in accessible formats to students > and faculty; > • Reading service to students and faculty; > • Writers for persons with blindness or low vision and maintain a scribe > bank; > • Editing and correction of scanned study materials; > • Assistive technology and solutions technical support to normal > faculty to make their teaching method and handouts accessible to all > students including students with disabilities; > • Provide /coordinate/advise making college, building, class rooms, > labs, toilet, office, fitments, library and all infrastructure and > services accessible to all persons with disabilities; > • Study renovation to see that new changes are adding to > accessibility to persons with disabilities; > • Provide training to Students or Faculty /staff with disabilities in > use of assistive technology; > • Organize sensitization programs for entire staff and students of > college on disability issues; > • Provide basic assistive technology which could be used by Students > and Faculty for their reading and writing needs; > • Create a pool of sign language interpreters; > • Ensure participation of persons with disabilities in all activities > including sports, seminars and other academic and extracurricular > activities; > • Provide support to persons with disabilities to borrow books from > library; > • Provide facility for students to write their examinations using > computers equipped with assistive technology; > • Arrange for accessible transport. > • Complete waiver or appropriate concession in Reevaluation Fee for > the disabled students. (which is currently Rs 1000/ copy) > • Updating and implementation of access audit reports > • Books and material in Hindi should be provided to all Hindi medium > students and in accessible format particularly in Unicode (as well as > in the audio format and Braille) to the visually impaired which is in > accordance with the Government of India norms. > • Make easily accessible reading materials (both Hindi and English) on > a specifically dedicated website accessible only through the > University/college server that the differently abled can use from > their respective locations as well. > • Setting up of at least two hostels one for boys and one for girls > with 300 seats in each and where no less than 75 % seats should be > filled on preferential basis from the students with Disabilities. Such > a hostel should meet the accessibility standards and be on the notion > of inclusive environment. > • Scholarships be provided for all the needy and poor students with > Disabilities. > • Allowance for vision impaired students to enable them to meet the > expenses that they have to incur on getting the services of readers. > • All disabled scholars doing M.Phil or Ph.D. should be provided > non-NET fellowship. This is also the pattern in some other central > universities, such as JNU. > • Organization of “remedial classes” for differently abled, provided > for in the Persons with Disabilities Act (1995), and inclusion of this > clause in the new merged scheme of the UGC. > • Use of Students’ Welfare Fund for the Benefit of disabled Students: > • Promotion of Inclusive Sports and Co-Curricular Activities > • Make fully accessible the various websites of DU through screen > reading softwares and their updating as per the standards or > international guidelines of accessibility approved by National > Informatics Centre and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment > so that vision impaired users might use them independently. > • Maintenance and Adherence to PH Roster on Ad hock and Permanent Posts. > • Students with disabilities who come to seek admission should get > equal treatment and benefits in merit as it is given to SC and ST > students. > • Libraries be made accessible by:- > • Connecting them to the rams/lifts. > • The Digital Catalogue be made available in the accessible format so > that a vision impaired person could search the desired document/book > independently. > • Starting of a time bound process of putting plates of embossed > Braille title on every book/document. > • Every shelf in the library should have marks inscribed in Braille > indicating the numbers. > • There should be facility of computers loaded with screen reader and > Scanners with OCR for vision impaired in the College libraries so that > such persons could access any material which is available in the > library for others. > • Organization of a Disability Summit in the University, to hear out > the grievances and demands of differently abled. > • Constitution of an Empowered Committee for preparing a time-bound > action plan to resolve the abovementioned issues. Such a committee > must include apart from the concerned University officials, persons > having firsthand experience of disability and related work and > research. > > > -- > Ajay Arora > Research Scholar > centre for the study of law and governance > Jawaharlal nehru university (JNU) > Mail to: > [email protected] > mobile: 9013901277. > > > 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 > > > > > 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 > > 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. 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