Disabled group files for stay order of new model
4 May 2013 10:24 AM GMT
Sambhavana, the leading organisation of disabled teachers and students in Delhi, has filed a write petition in the High Court requesting a stay order against implementation of the four year
under-graduation programme (FYUP) of the Delhi University. Sambhavna claims that the present design of FYUP is discriminatory as the programme does not take in to consideration the aspirations and
specific needs of the students with blindness and other print-disabilities. The organisation believes that in case the four-year under graduate programme is introduced in its present form, students with vision impairment will suffer irreparable loss and a large number of such students will get excluded from the proposed benefits of this programme.
The group believes that there is chance of problems arising owing to the imposition of compulsory interdisciplinary studies on students and said this programme requires students to study foundation courses from multiple streams.
Two of the eleven foundation courses (to be studied over the first two semesters) would be on mathematics and science. In the present system at Delhi University, not studying Maths and Science after the VIII standard did not harm at least the immediate academic prospects of a blind student.
Sambhavana has appealed to the Delhi High Court to stay the introduction of the four-year under graduate programme.
under-graduation programme (FYUP) of the Delhi University. Sambhavna claims that the present design of FYUP is discriminatory as the programme does not take in to consideration the aspirations and
specific needs of the students with blindness and other print-disabilities. The organisation believes that in case the four-year under graduate programme is introduced in its present form, students with vision impairment will suffer irreparable loss and a large number of such students will get excluded from the proposed benefits of this programme.
The group believes that there is chance of problems arising owing to the imposition of compulsory interdisciplinary studies on students and said this programme requires students to study foundation courses from multiple streams.
Two of the eleven foundation courses (to be studied over the first two semesters) would be on mathematics and science. In the present system at Delhi University, not studying Maths and Science after the VIII standard did not harm at least the immediate academic prospects of a blind student.
Sambhavana has appealed to the Delhi High Court to stay the introduction of the four-year under graduate programme.
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