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'84% seats for disabled unfilled at top universities' -Manash Pratim Gohain

-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Thirty-two of India's top universities and institutions of higher learning, including IITs, IIMs, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Delhi University, have together filled up barely 16% of the minimum quota for people with disabilities, a survey has revealed.

Exposing the appalling failure of the government in implementing the 1995 Disability Act — which fixed a minimum 3% quota — the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) found that these institutions had just 1,614 disabled people out of a student population of 3.33 lakh, which is just 0.48% of the total.

Worse, women with disabilities constituted a mere 28% of the disabled students in these institutions, the survey found. Laws and policies are meaningless if colleges and universities are not accessible to persons with disabilities, said Javed Abidi, honorary director of NCPEDP.

These are the top 50 national institutions. Imagine what it would be like in other colleges and universities across India," he said.

Abidi said since the state of education was so bad, "obviously the employment rate of people with disabilities gets affected. There is hardly any supply chain."

NCPEDP conducted the survey from August to November 2017, beginning with attempts to source data on representation of students with disabilities in India's campuses. Some the of other institutions covered were University of Hyderabad, Benaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University, Punjab University and Goa University.

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