When universities make mockry of disability law: It has become a trend in Indian universities where they don’t advertise posts for the blind candidates or dilute the recruitment procedure and reject them despite the seat reserved for them. And the negativity against disability is heavily engrained in the mind of non-disabled university authorities who are ignorant and illiterate about how blind people read and write? They wonder during the interview that ‘are you PhD’? and embarrassing shock: ‘is it really possible’? ‘will you be able to recognize the students’ faces’? ‘how ‘will you manage to come to the class’? as if these questions are very vital to judge one’s academic depth and credentials. I feel all teachers of colleges/state /central universities need to undergo very basic disability sensitization workshops. And this arrangement should be institutionalised at every university. The Human Resource Ministry needs to take a call before it is too late? And the UGC should cut funds or stop funding of institutions which violate the disability quota in recruitment. Out of 43 central universities around 35 universities have not recruited a single disabled faculty in any of its department. And the scenario is more scary at the state universities where their recruitment notices exclude persons with disabilities from applying. The latest discrimination has been noticed at the Central University of Himachal Pradesh where out of 84 seats no seat has been reserved for the blind candidates? And there has been hardly any protests/demonstrations at the UGC/MHRD for the emplementation of disability quota in the appointments in the universities. http://www.cuhimachal.ac.in/
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