Sunil Kumar, 21 years old from East of Kailash, Delhi connected to Eyeway Helpdesk in Feb 2018 with a scribe-related challenge. He hails from a six-member large family where he is the only visually
impaired person and from birth. This is a low-income family, with both parents being daily wage earners.

He studied in special schools from the start and has been looking for a job since he finished his 10th standard. He grew up being conscious of his financial circumstances and always wanted to be independent. In 2013 he worked as a telecaller for Vodafone for a period of 7 months. He found it counter-productive while considering his academic interests and decided to pursue his education.

He continued his education looking for a better future with the immense support of his parents. In 2017 he completed his graduation in Political Science from Delhi University. Now that he is on a full-scale look out for jobs he found a judicial clerk’s post vacant with the Delhi District Court, Tis Hazari. Appearing in the exam centre after a careful reading of the instructions for a scribe, he was denied his opportunity to complete the exam at the centre citing scribe related challenges.
 
The authorities argued that scribes must be academically lesser qualified than the examinee and forced him and his scribe who was just as qualified as him out of the exam centre. They rejected any conversation on the MSJE guidelines on the subject which Sunil posed and was stubborn on their supposed rule that scribes must be lesser qualified. This denied Sunil the opportunity to give the exam and compete for a job.
 
Eyeway has been encountering various scribe related issues even after fighting the issue legally and by knowledge dissemination. Scribes denied on the basis of qualification, by preventing choice to the disabled, by unawareness etc.