Visually impaired students hold dharna on faulty implementation of quota: India
New Delhi, July 17 Abour 20 members of the National Federation of Blind
students (NFB), supported by a few activists from the All–India Students
' Association (AISA), held a dharna outside the Department of Education
on Thursday afternoon to protest against the manner of implementation of
reservations for the B Ed course.
The demonstrators were university post–graduate students protesting
against the faulty implementation of the quota for physically
handicapped (PH) students in the B Ed course. A NFB member said that the
university had decreased the number of seats available for the visually
challenged candidates from 12 to seven. "They tried to reduce seats
reserved for the VC last year as well," he said.
Ashish Bharadwaj, Joint Secretary of the DU unit of AISA, said the
university had admitted three visually impaired candidates belonging
to the OBC category in the general category for physically handicapped
candidates, thus reducing seats for general category.
The students wanted these candidates shifted to the OBC category for VC
candidates, to free seats for PH candidates in the general category.
Source: http://www.expressindia.com/
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