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Delhi University’s Academic Council okays ideas to help out disabled

Delhi University's Academic Council, which met on Monday, cleared the recommendations of the empowered committee constituted to examine the foundation courses to ensure all parts are accessible to students with disabilities, especially the visually impaired. In addition to making suggestions, the committee has also sought Rs.1.8 crore as funds for "providing support to students with disabilities during Four-Year Undergraduate Programme". There were five dissents recorded.

Visual impairment kept this genius from getting into JEE, Stanford welcomes him

Denied a chance to appear for the IIT-JEE exams because he is visually impaired, an 18-year-old who scored 96 percent in his Class 12 CBSE has opted to study at Stanford University in the US.

"I would love to pursue my studies in my country, but the depressing guidelines of IIT-JEE last year have made it impossible for blind students to appear in the JEE (joint entrance exam)," Kartik Sawhney, who scored 479 out of 500 in the Class 12 exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), told IANS.

Neither disability nor poverty could hold them back, meet toppers of MP board exams

Toppers of 12th and 10th board examinations have one more reason to smile. Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan has announced reward money of Rs 2 lakh each to Shristi Tiwari and Poonam Ghore.

Visually impaired Shristi Tiwari scored 481 out of 500 to emerge as the topper in Arts stream of Madhya Pradesh 12the board examination.Shristi lives with her grand-parents in Damoh.

Heikapokpi Blind School functions sans Govt aid

The Heikapokpi Mission Blind School has been functioning without any assistance from the State government, stated Head Master K Pareng Kom during an inspection visit made by All Tribal Disabled Union Manipur (ATDUM) today. The Head Master further said that the school has a total strength of 116 students from classes Nursery to Class VIII with nine teachers and three non-teaching staffs.

Denied JEE chance, blind CBSE topper opts for Stanford

Denied a chance to appear for the IIT-JEE exams because he is vision impaired, an 18-year-old who scored 96% in his Class 12 CBSE has opted to study at Stanford University in the US.

"I would love to pursue my studies in my country, but the depressing guidelines of IIT-JEE last year have made it impossible for blind students to appear in the JEE (joint entrance exam)," Kartik Sawhney, who scored 479 out of 500 in the Class 12 exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), told IANS.

Himachal notifies four schools for physically challenged

Himachal Pradesh has notified four senior secondary schools in the state as inclusive institutions where the physically challenged will be provided education, Shimla-based public welfare trust Umang Foundation said Tuesday.

"The government has notified four senior secondary schools as inclusive where disabled students will study along with other children. Eight more schools are to be made inclusive schools soon," foundation chairman Ajai Srivastava said in a statement.

Srivastava said the four schools notified are in Shimla, Nagrota Bagwan, Nahan and Jogindernagar towns.

Panel: Be more disabled-friendly

The empowered committee constituted by Delhi University to solve the problems of disabled students on Tuesday proposed either to do away with structure of foundation courses or find alternative courses for them in the four-year undergraduate course, due to take off in coming July.

SC rules out interference in DU’s new programme

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled out any interference in Delhi University’s four-year undergraduate programme.

A vacation bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra, however, said it would pass a direction to ensure all facilities are provided to visually challenged students.“These are policy matters and the court should not interfere in it,” the court said, asking the university to file an affidavit giving details of the facilities it intends to provide to blind students.

Panel suggests breather for students with disabilities

Students with disabilities may not have to study the foundation courses in Mathematics and Science, if recommendations by a Delhi University panel are implemented.

The committee, which had assessed impact of the implementation of the four-year undergraduate programme, sent its recommendations to the university administration on Tuesday.

Blind boy blazes trail, scores 95% in science

KartikSawhney had to wage a battle before being allowed to study science in class XI. The CBSE was not convinced Kartik, who is completely blind, would be able to handle the 'visual inputs' — graphs, diagrams, models — required for science. The doubters got their answer on Monday. Kartik scored a 95% aggregate in science with computers in class XII.