{"id":33108,"date":"2018-10-30T10:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33108"},"modified":"2018-10-30T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T05:27:21","slug":"ensure-level-playing-field-for-the-disabled-in-higher-educational-institutions-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ensure-level-playing-field-for-the-disabled-in-higher-educational-institutions-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensure level-playing field for the disabled in higher educational institutions: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"vhttp:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/24-years-on-obc-workforce-in-centre-still-short-of-mandal-mark\/article21382491.ece\"><strong>Ensure level-playing field for the disabled in higher educational institutions: SC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Higher educational institutions, both government ones and those who take government aid, should ensure a level-playing field for disabled persons or face action for discrimination, the\u00a0 Supreme Court warned<\/p>\n<p><strong>Appropriate statute<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act provides for not less than 5% reservation in seats during admissions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bench\u2019s views<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan cautioned that appropriate legal action would be initiated against defaulting educational institutions<\/li>\n<li>A provision under the 2016 Act provided that persons with benchmark disabilities shall be given an upper age relaxation of five years for admission in institutions of higher education<\/li>\n<li>A requirement is to ensure that a student with disability, after proper education, would be able to lead an independent, economically self-sufficient and fully participatory life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions given by SC<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The apex court, in a 26-page judgment, directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to constitute a committee to consider the feasibility of having guidelines for accessibility of students with disabilities in universities and colleges<\/li>\n<li>The educational institutions concerned should submit a list of the number of disabled persons admitted in each course every year to the Chief Commissioner or State Commissioner under the Disabilities Act<\/li>\n<li>Intimation about the number of admissions given to disabled students should be sent to the Bar Council of India (BCI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3 key issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delivering a judgment on an 11-year-old PIL plea filed by the Disabled Rights Group, the Bench raised three key issues \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>non-implementation<\/strong> of reservation of seats in educational institutions as provided in the Disabilities Act<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>lack of proper access<\/strong> for orthopedically disabled persons in educational institutions<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>absence of provisions and facilities<\/strong> for teaching disabled persons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ensure level-playing field for the disabled in higher educational institutions: SC Context Higher educational institutions, both government ones and those who take government aid, should ensure a level-playing field for disabled persons or face action for discrimination, the\u00a0 Supreme Court warned Appropriate statute The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act provides for not less than&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ensure-level-playing-field-for-the-disabled-in-higher-educational-institutions-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ensure level-playing field for the disabled in higher educational institutions: SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704774269},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}