The UPSC Civil services exam is conducted by Union Public Services Commission. This is considered as the most prestigious and difficult competitive examination. It allows all the Indian citizens can write this examination. Aspirants can check the eligibility criteria for UPSC IAS Examination.

Visually impaired candidates appearing for civil services preliminary examination will get 40 minutes extra time per paper. Here we are giving the tips for UPSC Preparation for the visually impaired student.

Time management

Even her 80% vision loss could not refrain her from achieving dreams as her rock solid willpower and determination stood far above her partial disability. 

21-year-old Prachi Sukhwani, who lost 80 per cent of her vision in class III, has cracked the Common Admission Test (CAT) in 2016 that too with whopping 98.55 percentile - a test, considered one of the toughest for pursuing MBA.

In a major embarrassment to the Punjab Government, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has virtually rapped it for discriminating between victims of disabilities and told it to frame a policy for granting conveyance allowance to the “deaf and dumb”.

The direction by Justice Daya Chaudhary came on a petition by Madan Lal against the State of Punjab and other respondents. He was seeking the benefit of transport allowance as admissible to “blind and physically handicapped employees”.

After initially being denied the opportunity to study at NMMU because the university lacked the proper facilities to accommodate completely blind students, two visually impaired graduates walked across the stage yesterday to collect their certificates.

This after The Herald broke the story of how three blind NMMU hopefuls had had their dreams dashed when the university initially rejected their applications because it was not equipped to accommodate them.