Hi all,
Greetings from Eyeway Helpdesk! We have two questions related to UPSC exams for one of our helpdesk clients from Haryana for the judicial exam they conduct. This person is a low vision having been certified 40% visually impaired. He writes his exam on his own. He has cleared his prelims twice, but has fallen short in the merit list of main exams because his writing and reading speed is affected by his poor vision. He could only score 46.5% whereas minimum percentage for SC andST is 45% and 50% for general candidate. This implies that he is included in the general category and is not given appropriate provisions like extra time and relaxation in percentage which should be given to a low vision. Our caller believes that this is the discrimination by UPSC against a low vision/blind. These two questions are in light of above explanation: 1. Does UPSC give extra time in all its exams to people having low vision who wants to write exam on their own? 2. Does UPSC also give relaxation in percentage to low vision/blind like it gives to SCs and STs while preparing the merit list? Quick responses will be of utmost help because he is having his exam on 20th July, 2011 Thanks in anticipation, Binni Kumari| Helpdesk Executive Trainee Project Eyeway - A knowledge resource for living a fuller life with vision loss Score Foundation, 17/107, Basement, Vikram Vihar, Lajpat Nagar 4, New Delhi 110024, INDIA. Helpdesk: +91 - 11 - 460 70 380 (Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm) Email: [email protected] Website: www.eyeway.org Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
