Dear Aditi, This is indeed a good suggestion. Let me suggest the following. At this point, we are only demanding for the constitution of an Empowered Committee which will draft a time-bound action plan. Secondly, in order to draft this plan, the said committee will hold not only various other meetings, but that the University should declare a date when it will hold a disability summit inviting all disabled members of the University community. It is in this summit that the priorities should be fixed. Once again, thanks for your response.
On 1/16/13, aditi bhutani <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > 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 > > -- Vikas Gupta Assistant Professor–University of Delhi; Joint Secretary–Sambhavana Organization; National Executive Member–All-India Forum for Right to Education (AIF-RTE); Associate Editor–'Reconstructing Education'; Permanent Office: Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi , Delhi 110007, India. 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