DU's visually impaired students back in Delhi for second round of exams
Press Trust of India | September 11, 2020 | 10:48 PM IST | 2 mins read
NEW DELHI: Visually impaired students who could not take the Delhi University's online open-book exams last month have returned to the national capital from their homes in other parts of the country to appear for the second round commencing from September 14.
According to the university, 12,000 students have registered for the second phase of online open-book exams, and 3,000 of these have opted to take the exams at designated centres.
The first phase of online open-book exams for final year postgraduate and undergraduate students was conducted between August 10 and August 31.
The second phase is being conducted for those students who could not take the exams in August.
In the second phase, students can take the exams online or visit the university's exam centres. Deepak Gupta, a visually impaired student, travelled from Bihar's Rohtas district to Delhi to appear for the exams.
His exams are scheduled to begin from September 16. "I have opted for the online mode since the varsity has not arranged scribes for us. The National Association for Blind will be helping us in writing the exams. The college hostels are closed and the NGO has made arrangements for our stay," he said.
Kanta, another visually impaired student, said she spent Rs 5,000 to reach Delhi from Uttarakhand on a private vehicle. "I will be taking the exam online since it is not feasible for me to go to the exam centre. I have managed to arrange a scribe. At the centre, it won't be possible to maintain social distancing but in case of online mode, we can sit in one room with our scribe and take the exam," she said. Nitin Kumar Tyagi has come from Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district.
He said it was difficult to find scribes in his home town and even in Delhi writers are not willing to travel to exam centres at a time when the city is seeing a surge in coronavirus cases. "I have arranged for a couple of writers who will write the exam for me.
I won't take the exam at the centre but somewhere else. The varsity has not helped us in arranging scribes or even study material," he said.
Also Read:
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Featured News
]- IIFT Kolkata: Placements close with no jobs for over 34%; students allege bias in process
- Medical Colleges: NMC mandates more beds in select PG courses, fewer faculty for private institutes
- Revamp Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, serve breakfast under PM POSHAN, regulate foreign university campuses: Panel
- ‘What is our life?’: Transgender Bill 2026 ‘returns us to the 1880s,’ says Kerala’s first trans lawyer
- ‘Thought it was my fault’: How students are being harassed, followed and silenced – on the way to school
- Fix PMKVY, hold PM-SETU until foolproof; set up national skill board to rationalise schemes: Panel
- Degrees Without Jobs: 40% of graduates in India can’t find work, fewer get salaried employment, finds report
- IIT Delhi’s Jhajjar campus expansion shelved after technical survey flags weak soil, waterlogging: Govt
- Post-Matric Scholarship: Government plans to impose fee cap, raise income limit to Rs 4.5 lakh next year
- What is the Rohith Act? Provisions, origin, politics of a draft law to combat caste discrimination on campus