absolute farse.mbers on this list is The idea of isolation as proposed by some me I totally agree with you Prashant sir. The idea of integrated education provided by NAB is the best. Hope it will be adopted by entire India someday.
On 7/25/14, Renuka Warriar Edakkunni <eren...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > Since I was not totally blind I took my studies in normal school only. > But even then, nobody considered me a disabled child, rather took me > only one among them, and I never had the feeling that I was > different. Of course, whenever I need any help from my friends or > teachers, they were more than happy to provide it. > > Renuka. > > On 7/25/14, Asudani, Rajesh <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> wrote: >> Dil ke khush rakhne ko ghalib khayal achha hay!! >> >> Anyway, all this presupposes that a blind child would be well above >> average >> in dealing withlife, and society also in turn would be far mature and >> sophisticated. >> >> My simple question is: >> does a blind person not have the right to be just average? >> >> >> With thanks and regards >> >> >> (Rajesh Asudani) >> >> Assistant General Manager >> Market Intelligence Unit >> Reserve Bank of India >> Nagpur >> >> Tel.: 0712 2806358 >> (In youth you want things, and then in middle-age you want to want them.) >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >> Behalf >> Of George Abraham >> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 7:51 AM >> To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >> concerning >> the disabled.' >> Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted >> suicide >> >> Just as we expect and campaign for an accessible World to live in our >> education system is expected to be accessible in all its dimensions. >> Technologies used , strategies deployed have to not only create a level >> playing field but also provide all children with choices to learn and do >> things. For example if blind children are allowed the option of writing >> exams using computers then all children must have the choice of using >> computers. The problems arise when you have special solutions deployed >> for >> so called special children and in the process isolate. Inclusion has to >> happen with a universal design outlook. Inclusion is not just about >> placing >> disabled children in a mainstream school and addressing their special >> needs. Inclusion is about a class room that is accessible, a pedagogy >> that >> reaches out to all children in class, a curriculum that is more focused >> towards skill development rather than being content heavy. In other words >> inclusive education should not be a cut and paste job to accommodate >> disabled children but needs to be looked at afresh with a lens of >> universal >> design that addresses the diversity. >> >> Given the fact that we the blind want opportunities in the World, we need >> to >> 1. see how we can be empowered enough to be part of the World >> 2. The people around needs to be given sufficient opportunity to see, >> understand and appreciate the potential of all of us so that their >> hesitation, reluctance and resistence to including us is wiped out. >> >> We live in an imperfect World. There is a constant room for improvement. >> Nothing stops us from aspiring for a better World. We are not compelled >> to >> settle for inadequate options. We need to keep the big picture in mind >> and >> strive to eliminate the limitations of the systems and create a better >> World for our selves There are problems with the way inclusion is >> happening. We would be well served if we look at finding solutions to the >> challenges we face rather than merely sitting back and being critical of >> the structures. Problems are there we need to look for the way forward. >> If >> we want to be included then we need to strive for inclusion right from >> the >> beginning so that we are equipped and so is the World equipped to >> include. >> >> The World and life is driven by our dreams and aspirations together with >> our desire to make the dream real. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >> Behalf >> Of avinash shahi >> Sent: 24 July 2014 22:51 >> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >> concerning >> the disabled. >> Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted >> suicide >> >> Dear Vamshi sir >> >> Your question reminded me of one great paper which has been published >> in the current issue of 'Disability & Society'; Author of the paper is >> a blind PH.D scholar who has shared his experiences of regular school >> in Australia. I just want to share few paragraphs which are relevan >> in Indian context also,and can help us in understanding the real >> situation of disabled children in better way. These paragraphs are >> worth-reading. Hope all would find time to go through... >> block quote >> Davis (1995) argues that social ontology is heavily weighted towards >> normalcy. The biological and social aberration that inflicts people >> with disabilities ensures that they fail to live up to this standard >> (Snyder and Mitchell 2007). In schools, a 'deliberate act of >> dislocation (Erevelles 2011, 71) therefore forces children with >> impairments into the deficit discourse, because they are regarded as >> being already detached from the normal centre. >> Special education policy and practice is the apparatus that dislocates >> students with disabilities from the mainstream (Erevelles 2011). The >> ambiguity or spectre of inclusion that 'haunts' the lives of people >> labelled with special needs insures that inclusion is simultaneously >> present and absent. >> block quote end >> >> B. Whitburn further writes >> >> block quote >> In primary school I was placed in classes in which teachers were >> confident that they could include me in their classes. However, given >> that I was a slightly abnormal student, they worked closely with >> special education staff at all times to support my integration. I made >> use of a Perkins Braille machine in lessons - a clunky typewriter that >> produces Braille dots on cardboard-like paper (see Figure 1). The >> incessant noise that this machine produced had me relegated to the >> back corner of classrooms away from my peers, where I sat in front of >> large shelves, erected to house the numerous text and reference books >> that the special educational staff had either procured or transcribed >> themselves. >> I was certainly accommodated to participate in mainstream classrooms >> in primary school, and relished in it. Naturally, however, there was >> little use in my attending class when the rest of the students were >> taking a lesson on cursive; as was the custom at the time. Nor, did my >> teachers believe, would there be any point in having me join in on >> Italian lessons - the language that typified languages other than >> english (LOVE) instruction in my primary school. Friday afternoon >> sports would present untold difficulties, and grade-level school camps >> would allegedly create a disconcerting maze-like burden. Implicit >> lists of this nature amassed; thus I was frequently withdrawn from the >> regular education field, and placed in the special educational one to >> continue receiving special instruction. Rather than being included in >> school-run extracurricular activities, all students with VI played >> blind cricket and other VI-specific sports on Fridays. Full article >> can be read at: >> http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2013.844097 >> block quote end >> >> >> block quote end >> >> On 7/24/14, Vamshi. G <gvamsh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Dear friends, >>> >>> I was fairly sighted in my school days. So, no comments about which >>> of the two is better. Just a thought. How about a special educator in >>> a main stream school who teaches disabled children the special skills >>> that are required to adapt to inclusiveness? All challenges faced by >>> the child should be reported by the teachers to this educator who can >>> spend time with children in the evenings and mornings to tell what >>> they can do to overcome them. If I'm not wrong, this concept is what >>> they call as integrated education. While an ideal inclusive >>> environment implies everyone to be sensitive to the needs of disabled, >>> an integrated education environment involves providing back end >>> support(if it can be called so) to train disabled to adapt to the >>> inclusive environment. As the child grows older, the need of such an >>> educator should become less, and at some stage, the child should >>> become completely independent. May be such older children can guide >>> their younger ones from then onwards. >>> >>> On 7/24/14, bhawani shankar verma <bsvermad...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> i started my education in blind school and up to my 8th standard in my >>>> leadership we have defeated many reputed regular public schools in >>>> various >>>> competitions on the occasion of republic day celebration. Please note >>>> that >>>> music competitions are not included in the statement. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "avinash shahi" <shahi88avin...@gmail.com> >>>> To: "AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>>> concerningthe disabled." <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >>>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 4:50 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted >>>> suicide >>>> >>>> >>>>> Vidhya has provided a nuanced account of experiences in regular school >>>>> which is intentionally underrated and avoided by proponents of >>>>> inclusive education. I hope many students can narrate similar stories. >>>>> Friends it is time we should speak up and write real experiences so >>>>> that experiences are documented and serious discourse is initiated >>>>> with the policy-maker for policy intervention. Any idea if not >>>>> discussed and debated adequately and hastely promoted for actuation; >>>>> may lead to serious ramification. Regular schools can never make you >>>>> feel equal not because you are really not equal but just think about >>>>> one terminology adopted by governments in their policy documents. >>>>> that is CSN equals (Children with 'special' needs. All recquirements >>>>> of a disabled child are 'special' which will always make him/her >>>>> special for pity and charity from non-special people. I hope many more >>>>> students who are members here will share their experiences of regular >>>>> schools. Come on friends we are more than 25 hundred people on the >>>>> list. Why only 20 to 25 share discuss and debate? language is no >>>>> barrier role your fingers and make issues visible in public domain. >>>>> On 7/24/14, Asudani, Rajesh <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in> wrote: >>>>>> Well said, vidhya. >>>>>> Still we are apologetic about our experiences in special schools >>>>>> because >>>>>> these inclusivists have made feel obsolete in moder era of inclusion. >>>>>> I can also say similar so many good tings about my early education in >> a >>>>>> blind school. >>>>>> At george: yes, we have to work in the society full of sighted. >>>>>> But it is mandatory for early years that foundation is laid with >>>>>> confidence >>>>>> and in an unhindered manner. >>>>>> In the name of inclusion, we may thrust unsuspecting blind children >>>>>> into >>>>>> >>>>>> a a >>>>>> situation where they themselves won't understand their blindness, let >>>>>> alone >>>>>> work with confidence in the sighted world. >>>>>> Howsoever we shout that we are no different, the fact remains that we >>>>>> are >>>>>> different, and we must understand and deal with that different >>>>>> successfully. >>>>>> So, it is better to improve the quality of blind schools instead of >>>>>> forcing >>>>>> blind children upon unwilling and ill equipped sighted schools. >>>>>> Uniformity is not the panacea. >>>>>> Sighted schools also, by the way, are not heavenly for the students >>>>>> even >>>>>> with sight. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> With thanks and regards >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> (Rajesh Asudani) >>>>>> >>>>>> Assistant General Manager >>>>>> Market Intelligence Unit >>>>>> Reserve Bank of India >>>>>> Nagpur >>>>>> >>>>>> Tel.: 0712 2806358 >>>>>> (In youth you want things, and then in middle-age you want to want >>>>>> them.) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On >>>>>> Behalf >>>>>> Of Vidhya Y >>>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 4:09 PM >>>>>> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>>>>> concerning >>>>>> the disabled. >>>>>> Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted >>>>>> suicide >>>>>> >>>>>> Dear Friends, >>>>>> I would like to Share my Personal Experience regarding Inclusive >>>>>> education from Childhood. >>>>>> this is just my openion. >>>>>> Sorry if I am wrong. >>>>>> according to me, its better if a Blind Child studies atleast primary >>>>>> school in Blind schools. >>>>>> I started studying in a regular School from Standard 8. >>>>>> before that, I Studied at Jyothiseva School for the blind in >> Bangalore. >>>>>> My Mom did not want me to go to Blind School and she would always cry >>>>>> to leave me in the Hostel because my family is very supportive. >>>>>> but with all the courage she managed to leave me in that school till >>>>>> 7th Grade just because I had to mingle with other children. >>>>>> I would come home once a Week. >>>>>> I am sure that the quality of education in blind school is far >>>>>> behind >>>>>> the regular School. >>>>>> for example, we were taught algebra and geomatry at very basic level >>>>>> in the Blind school. >>>>>> however, >>>>>> I have enjoyed playing so many Games both out door and indoor with my >>>>>> Blind Friends. >>>>>> I have not played any of these games except chess after I left the >>>>>> school. >>>>>> I still remember how we would enjoy going to picknics together. >>>>>> now I dont go to college trip because I am sure that my friends will >>>>>> find it difficult to take me every where. >>>>>> because I studied in a blind school, >>>>>> I always thank god that I have so many sweet memories to tell my >>>>>> Sighted friends even now. >>>>>> I feel that sighted Children are not so comfortable playing outdoor >>>>>> games with blind friends because its different from what they play. >>>>>> and also I had learnt to do my own work even sweeping, cleaning rooms >>>>>> etc. >>>>>> its obvious that family members are not trained in teaching all the >>>>>> work to Visually challenged. >>>>>> in case of my family, I am sure I would not know a single work >>>>>> because >>>>>> my Mom and sisters would do it for me. >>>>>> there were so many vierd students in my Blind school >>>>>> who were admitted after 12 years to first grade for example, >>>>>> there was a girl who did not know how to walk till the age of 12 >>>>>> because her parents were not aware how to teach her. >>>>>> there was another girl who did not know that even she can play. >>>>>> isn't it sad that a child doesn't know how to play just because >>>>>> he/she >>>>>> is Blind?now I can think all this but it is not possible as a child >>>>>> to >>>>>> think all this. >>>>>> and I would also learn Bharatanatyam >>>>>> in the Blind School. >>>>>> now I dont feel comfortable dancing. >>>>>> I stay in a town and now if people say anything about my Blindness or >>>>>> ask me some unwanted questions, I can answer them in a correct way >>>>>> bravely. >>>>>> but as a kid I would always cry. >>>>>> then how would I manage to study in a normal school from first grade? >>>>>> I would have lost all my confidence in childhood itself. >>>>>> I would top my class in Blind School so I knew that I can work hard >>>>>> even in the regular school. >>>>>> in case I would have studied in a regular school from the very >>>>>> beginning, because of lack of support of teachers and Friends or lack >>>>>> of study material I would not do well, >>>>>> then How would I know that I can top the School? >>>>>> even though the quality of education was not that great till 7th >> grade, >>>>>> I was able to manage and score 95% in 10th grade and also I have done >>>>>> BCA and now doing a Research project and I am will take up MS soon. >>>>>> I think I was able to get through so many difficulties in regular >>>>>> High >>>>>> school and college because of the moral support and confidence that I >>>>>> got from Blind school. >>>>>> In 8th grade as soon as I joined regular school, >>>>>> I missed so much fun and then I realised that I am the only different >>>>>> student in the school and could participate only in games like quiz >>>>>> debate etc. >>>>>> but I was meture enough in 8th grade to understand all that. >>>>>> but before that, how would I understand all this? >>>>>> >>>>>> thanks and regards, >>>>>> Vidhya >>>>>> >>>>>> On 7/24/14, Renuka Warriar Edakkunni <eren...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> 100% right Preethi Mam. If we accept the the people as they are and >>>>>>> the situation as it is, we can leed an inclusive life very >>>>>>> successfully. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Renuka. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 7/24/14, Preeti Monga <preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in> wrote: >>>>>>>> How about getting non disabled people get included in our disabled >>>>>>>> culture >>>>>>>> instead? This is our culture as much as it is their culture! Mind >>>>>>>> you, >>>>>>>> we >>>>>>>> all come from inclusive families anyway! How do we avoid that? >>>>>>>> Also, >>>>>>>> children, disabled or non disabled, come crying anyway from school >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> play >>>>>>>> grounds! We all have to teach our children social skills, and one >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> these >>>>>>>> social skills is; the art of accepting oneself as we are! And to >>>>>>>> learn >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> focus on our strengths and improve upon areas where we are not so >>>>>>>> strong. >>>>>>>> Once our confidence is high, which again is how we build it for >> our >>>>>>>> children. I know disability is a singling out point, but the same >>>>>>>> type >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> discrimination is awarded to Sikh boys and men; the ones who wear >>>>>>>> their >>>>>>>> hair >>>>>>>> long and a turben and beard! So is being a Sickh gentleman also >>>>>>>> some >>>>>>>> kind >>>>>>>> of a disability? >>>>>>>> This debate can go on for ever; so let us face it: this world is >> made >>>>>>>> up >>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>> all kinds and types of humans, we all must claim our share in it, >> and >>>>>>>> we >>>>>>>> must make the most of all the things we have and give life our >>>>>>>> best >>>>>>>> shot! >>>>>>>> Preeti >>>>>>>> Preeti Monga >>>>>>>> Director >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Mobile: +91 9871701646 >>>>>>>> Landline: 011 22781446 >>>>>>>> E-mail: preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in >>>>>>>> Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org >>>>>>>> Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. >>>>>>>> Training >>>>>>>> -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - >>>>>>>> Corporate >>>>>>>> ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including >>>>>>>> demystifying >>>>>>>> workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel >>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>> Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We assure high quality service marked with excellence and >>>>>>>> complete >>>>>>>> customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] >>>>>>>> On >>>>>>>> Behalf >>>>>>>> Of avinash shahi >>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 1:31 PM >>>>>>>> To: AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>>>>>>> concerning >>>>>>>> the disabled. >>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted >>>>>>>> suicide >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Preeti mam >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> humiliation is pervasive in hierarchical Indian society. It does >>>>>>>> not >>>>>>>> inspire me to intentially enrol my blind child in a school where >>>>>>>> she >>>>>>>> cries everyday and loses courage to narrate her humiliating story >>>>>>>> at >>>>>>>> home. I strongly believe I'm very powerful and can coexist in an >>>>>>>> inclusive society. and I have enough cultural/social/economic >> capital >>>>>>>> that my inclusiveness will be based on my understanding of >>>>>>>> disability. >>>>>>>> I can not give in to the pressure imposed upon me by so called >>>>>>>> non-disabled people that you have to behave in a certain way if you >>>>>>>> want to accomodated in our culture. 'Knowledge is power', It is >>>>>>>> high >>>>>>>> time we use power to decide and determine the norms of >> inclusiveness. >>>>>>>> Its enough that non-disabled people have overarching influence on >>>>>>>> disabled people lives. Off to lunch will get back later. >>>>>>>> On 7/24/14, Preeti Monga <preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in> wrote: >>>>>>>>> Why do we assume that people without disability do not get >>>>>>>>> humiliated >>>>>>>>> by >>>>>>>>> others? The human being enjoys humiliating another human, no >> matter >>>>>>>>> how! >>>>>>>>> Probabely because humiliating someone else, especially those you >>>>>>>>> feel >>>>>>>>> insecure around, makes you feel superior and elated! Even one >>>>>>>>> blind >>>>>>>>> person >>>>>>>>> can be seen humiliating another; then what should we say? I am not >>>>>>>>> saying >>>>>>>>> that this is a good practice, but that is how life is. As George >>>>>>>>> very >>>>>>>>> rightly said, it is a good thing to get used to tackeling harsh >>>>>>>>> realities >>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>> life at an early stage. Do you think that family easily gives up >>>>>>>>> any >>>>>>>>> opportunity to humiliate another family member? Blind or not. Yes, >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> disabled are already suffering so much that even a little >> harshness >>>>>>>>> can >>>>>>>>> cause enormous pain! I agree with George that we blind cannot live >>>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>>> isolation and ultimately we have to live in the inclusive society. >>>>>>>>> Therefore, we need to learn the tactic of staying put in this >>>>>>>>> world >>>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>>> insidently also belongs to us as much as it does to anyone else! >>>>>>>>> Yes, >>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>>> can be programmes where people with disabilities are trained to >>>>>>>>> learn >>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>> deal successfully with the harshness life keeps hurdeling at them! >>>>>>>>> Preeti >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Preeti Monga >>>>>>>>> Director >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Mobile: +91 9871701646 >>>>>>>>> Landline: 011 22781446 >>>>>>>>> E-mail: preeti.mo...@silver-linings.co.in >>>>>>>>> Website: www.silver-linings.co.in ; www.silver-linings.org >>>>>>>>> Our Services: Executive Search - Specializing in Head Hunting. >>>>>>>>> Training >>>>>>>>> -Motivation; Stress Management; Soft Skill; Behavioral. Gifting - >>>>>>>> Corporate >>>>>>>>> ; Promotional; Events. End to end CSR Advisory; including >>>>>>>>> demystifying >>>>>>>>> workshops and counseling. Printing Solutions, Incentive Travel >> and >>>>>>>>> Marketing Data Mining / Refining.. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We assure high quality service marked with excellence and >> complete >>>>>>>>> customer centricity, forming Synergies as we go along. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] >> On >>>>>>>> Behalf >>>>>>>>> Of George Abraham >>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 12:47 PM >>>>>>>>> To: 'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>>>>>>> concerning >>>>>>>>> the disabled.' >>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind >>>>>>>>> attempted >>>>>>>> suicide >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Consider this Avinash: Once you get out of the education stage of >>>>>>>>> your >>>>>>>>> life, you work and live in an inclusive environment. What about >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> humiliation people go through. Inclusion right from early days >>>>>>>>> prepares >>>>>>>> one >>>>>>>>> to deal with the harsh realities of the World. Having said this, >>>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>>> is >>>>>>>> a >>>>>>>>> lot of work that needs to be done in terms ground preparation of >> the >>>>>>>>> inclusive education platform. It is inclusive education that also >>>>>>>>> prepares >>>>>>>>> the non disabled population to understand , appreciate and engage >>>>>>>>> with >>>>>>>>> disability and people with disability. >>>>>>>>> This subject again can debated. >>>>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>>>> From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] >> On >>>>>>>> Behalf >>>>>>>>> Of avinash shahi >>>>>>>>> Sent: 24 July 2014 12:24 >>>>>>>>> To: accessindia; jnuvision; sayeverything >>>>>>>>> Subject: [AI] Insulted by a university teacher, blind attempted >>>>>>>>> suicide >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> So what the proponents of Inclusive education say on this? >>>>>>>>> Psychological humiliation leaves more scars ,you know. We do not >>>>>>>>> know >>>>>>>>> how many of students go through similar experiences in colleges >>>>>>>>> and >>>>>>>>> universities? who cares about them? This teacher must be suspended >>>>>>>>> forthwith. People in Odisha must take the matter with the >>>>>>>>> concerned >>>>>>>>> authorities. Such teachers who are incensitive to the needs of >>>>>>>>> disabled students and humiliate them the need to be delth sternly >> by >>>>>>>>> the law enforcing agencies. Do forward this to the people active >>>>>>>>> in >>>>>>>>> Odisha. >>>>>>>>> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140724/jsp/odisha/story_18646088.jsp >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Cry for suspension of Utkal faculty >>>>>>>>> OUR CORRESPONDENT >>>>>>>>> Bhubaneswar, July 23: Visually challenged students today sat on a >>>>>>>>> protest before the disability commissioner's office here demanding >>>>>>>>> immediate suspension of the Utkal university faculty Sujit >>>>>>>>> Acharya. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Acharya had allegedly insulted a visually impaired student, who >>>>>>>>> was >>>>>>>>> compelled him to attempt suicide. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The students squatted in front of the commissioner's office on the >>>>>>>>> premises of Capital Hospital, where the victim Chakradhar Dash is >>>>>>>>> admitted since Friday. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Twenty-five-year-old Chakradhar had tried to kill himself after he >>>>>>>>> was >>>>>>>>> allegedly humiliated by Acharya in an examination hall on July 17. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Dash, a postgraduate student of history under the directorate of >>>>>>>>> distance and continuing education,had gone to the varsity to >>>>>>>>> appear >>>>>>>>> for his semester exam. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Chakradhar alleged that the faculty misbehaved with him and made >> fun >>>>>>>>> of him and his scribe before the class asking him to sit near the >>>>>>>>> toilet. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Distressed due to the insult, the student had drunk a full bottle >> of >>>>>>>>> phenyl. Friends of the boy, who found him unconscious, rushed him >> to >>>>>>>>> the Capital Hospital where he is undergoing treatment. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The student alleged that he was regularly cornered by the faculty >> of >>>>>>>>> the directorate and had to study without any books or support of >> the >>>>>>>>> teachers. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> "We have initiated an inquiry into the matters and will take >>>>>>>>> action >>>>>>>>> against anyone found guilty," said director Sasmit Pani >>>>>>>>> directorate >>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>> distance and continuing education. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Besides suspension of the teacher, the students also demanded the >>>>>>>>> proper supply of Braille books and immediate implementation of the >>>>>>>>> Braille transcription project announced by the government. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> A vigilance inquiry must be made into why schemes such as talking >>>>>>>>> books meant to serve hundreds of blinds children has failed to >>>>>>>>> deliver, demanded Joginder, a student. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This apart, the students appealed to the state government as to >>>>>>>>> why >>>>>>>>> the educational institutions have been continuing collection of >>>>>>>>> fee >>>>>>>>> from the disabled, despite the announcement of the government for >>>>>>>>> a >>>>>>>>> fee waiver for such candidates. >>>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>>> Avinash Shahi >>>>>>>>> M.Phil Research Scholar >>>>>>>>> Centre for The Study of Law and Governance >>>>>>>>> Jawaharlal Nehru University >>>>>>>>> New Delhi India >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing >>>>>>>>> accessibility >>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>> mobile phones / Tabs on: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >> http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessin >>>>>>>>> dia.org.in >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Search for old postings at: >>>>>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> To unsubscribe send a message to >>>>>>>>> accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >>>>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Disclaimer: >>>>>>>>> 1. 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