Any say? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Disabled-get-only-0-56-of-seats-in-higher-education/articleshow/46810639.cms NEW DELHI: About 0.56% seats in higher education go to disabled candidates though there's reservation to the extent of 3% in public institutions. of this 74.08% are male and 22.70% female.
This came out in the third survey on the Status of Disability in Higher Education conducted by the National Centre for Promotion of Employment of Disabled People (NCPEDP). It includes responses from over 150 institutions of higher education across the country including 16 Indian Institutes of Technology and 13 Indian Institutes of Management, architecture, law, medicine, hotel management and other engineering and business schools. The participation rate varies across disabilities. Of the total number of disabled candidates, 46.67% have orthopaedic disabilities, 32.13% are visually impaired, 5.16% are speech/hearing impaired and 16.05% have other types. The percentage of students varies across streams as well - the IIMs, surprisingly, come closest to completing the 3% quota with 2.49% disabled students of the total enrolled. Social work schools have an enrollment of 1.75% and IITs, 1.47%. The general universities are at the bottom with a 0.31% fill-rate. The total number of the students considered is 15,21,438. Bipin Tiwari of Delhi University's Equal Opportunity Cell explains why it's difficult for universities - even proactive ones - to fill seats belonging to the quote. Some of the DU colleges participated in the survey. "There is a clear disconnect between schools and colleges. I don't know how many disabled children are graduating from school every year. We try to spread awareness and enrollment is increasing. Now there are about 1,300 disabled students enrolled in DU right now," Tiwari said. Of the 1,500-odd seats, about 700 are filled. The gender ratio is also far healthier than the national average the survey furnishes - about 60-40. Also, the largest category in DU is not that of the orthopaedically-disabled but of the visually-impaired and the percentage of the hearing/speech-impaired is far lower. "There will about 100 all told," Tiwari said. He explains that most students in this group come from special schools and prefer computer-based courses. "They are often advised at the special schools to take up vocational courses." Particular categories of the disabled tend to go for specific streams. For instance, 99% of the disabled in medicine are orthopaedicallly-disabled; 57% of the disabled students in general science are visually-impaired and 62% in hotel management are in the other-disability category (including learning/mental disability). The survey also found that over a 100 of the respondent institutions have a "disability unit" on campus and over 130 have a "disability policy." -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU 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 Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
