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July 03, 2007
DU unable to cater to special students-India
The following information was downloaded from the mailing list of "Disability and Development" with a cooperation of the publisher, Mr. Soya Mori.
With 106 rooms in a lone hostel and zero facilities for disabled, varsity hard pressed to fill even a third of 1,000 reserved seats, say officials
Tenzing Lamsang
New Delhi, July 02: DELHI University has 1,000 seats reserved for disabled students. But it has received only 284 applications for admission till date this academic session.
The reason is not hard to fathom: the university’s sole hostel for the disabled — ‘Blind Hostel’ in Outram Lines — can accommodate only 106 students. And 90 per cent of the seats are occupied even this early in the admission season.
Among the best varsities in the country it may be, but DU still has miles to go in way of providing facilities for its special students. And even Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental admits as much: “They have a difficult time because most of our colleges do not have hostels and disabled-friendly facilities.”
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