Thanks alot dear Kanchan madam. This is a great achievement for the blindstudents. ----- Original Message ----- From: "pamnani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:15 AM Subject: [AI] The Policy
> Just like to report that we had a good meeting yesterday in Delhi. > the recommendations are as follows: > 1.Candidate has the discretion to appoint his own scribe > 2. Extra time of 20 mins per hour of exam > 3. no fetters on qualification of Scribe. This is the best - no junior > problem, no stream problem, no marks problem. > 4. Alternative Formats as suggested in my draft plus audio. > 5. All equipment as suggested in my draft. > 6. the details of the technology hardware and software to be used will be > put in an annexure. Here I will re send Manish's points. > Basically everything accepted. I did not fight about extra time of 30 > mins. Everyone felt that 20 mins per hour was fair. Any loss of time will > also be compensated. The biggest achievement is on no fetters on Scribe > chosen by candidate and multiple scribes. this battle took nearly 1 and > half hours. these recommendations will be the minimum to be provided some > Examining Bodies provide better facilities like Pranav has suggested they > can continue to do so. > > Now the whole process starts. it will be recommended to the Ministry then > maybe another 2 sittings and discussions. then it will be implemented at > the Center and we will have to go back to each State to ask them to > implement it. > It is ironical but the fight started in Maharashtra and then went to the > Center and now we will have to go back to each state finally to achieve > uniformity. > Closure is far but the steps have started. > I would like to thank Mr. Sisodia who started this battle and then got me > involved, every accessindian for sharing and contributing and the Xaviers > Resource Centre for the Visually challenged in Researching and actually > battling it out with the Authorities. > this topic can now close for a few days till I post the recommendations as > and when I receive it. > I guess by 2009 exam season we should have everything in place. Thanks > once again > Kanchan > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
