NEW DELHI: A completely blind pupil of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has refused to just accept his exam consequence by which he was failed, accusing the administration of now not offering him a creator and studying subject material in braille script.
Munesh Kumar, who has finished his Masters from the similar university and where all assessments were written for him by way of a scribe, has accused the Centre of Japanese Studies (CJS) of denying him a creator despite his request, which resulted in his failing his exam.
"I used to be now not provided the studying subject material in braille at the centre, nor the Job Access With Speech (JAWS) software. When I asked them for these, they directed me to the Helen Keller Library in the university. They did not supply me the creator also.
"The creator who accompanied me to the exam hall refused to jot down paper for me. He most effective learn the questions aloud," the B.A. first semester pupil at CJS advised IANS.
Kumar said that all his assessments, even during his schooling and graduation from Delhi University's Rajdhani College, were written for him by way of writers because he can see "little or no".
His failing the exam now not most effective renders him ineligible for promotion to the following semester but has led to cancellation of his studentship from the centre for falling underneath a undeniable CGPA.
Another grievance Kumar made was that he was now not given a steady tutor.
"He would come once per week most effective -- on Sundays-- after which too would at all times be in hurry," he said.
The Chairperson of his centre Professor P. A. George, on the other hand, said it was Kumar's truancy that did him in and now not the entire claims he made were true.
"The tutor would visit him every day but he would now not find him (Kumar) in his room. In the middle of the semester, he went to Agra... Learning a language is like maths, if you happen to miss even one magnificence, it is extremely exhausting for one to develop language," George advised IANS.
He conceded that the centre does now not have Japanese studying subject material in braille, since the centre is "newly constructed" and because it requires a "lot of cash" translating all books in braille.
On the price that the creator refused to jot down his papers, George insisted that the declare was now not true and that it was Kumar who insisted on being given another creator. He said the coed may just nonetheless write to the university to consider his "special case".
Munesh Kumar, who has finished his Masters from the similar university and where all assessments were written for him by way of a scribe, has accused the Centre of Japanese Studies (CJS) of denying him a creator despite his request, which resulted in his failing his exam.
"I used to be now not provided the studying subject material in braille at the centre, nor the Job Access With Speech (JAWS) software. When I asked them for these, they directed me to the Helen Keller Library in the university. They did not supply me the creator also.
"The creator who accompanied me to the exam hall refused to jot down paper for me. He most effective learn the questions aloud," the B.A. first semester pupil at CJS advised IANS.
Kumar said that all his assessments, even during his schooling and graduation from Delhi University's Rajdhani College, were written for him by way of writers because he can see "little or no".
His failing the exam now not most effective renders him ineligible for promotion to the following semester but has led to cancellation of his studentship from the centre for falling underneath a undeniable CGPA.
Another grievance Kumar made was that he was now not given a steady tutor.
"He would come once per week most effective -- on Sundays-- after which too would at all times be in hurry," he said.
The Chairperson of his centre Professor P. A. George, on the other hand, said it was Kumar's truancy that did him in and now not the entire claims he made were true.
"The tutor would visit him every day but he would now not find him (Kumar) in his room. In the middle of the semester, he went to Agra... Learning a language is like maths, if you happen to miss even one magnificence, it is extremely exhausting for one to develop language," George advised IANS.
He conceded that the centre does now not have Japanese studying subject material in braille, since the centre is "newly constructed" and because it requires a "lot of cash" translating all books in braille.
On the price that the creator refused to jot down his papers, George insisted that the declare was now not true and that it was Kumar who insisted on being given another creator. He said the coed may just nonetheless write to the university to consider his "special case".
JNU blind student blames university failed him
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