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| Hire disability quota, HC tells DU |
| For five years Kedar Mandal navigates three flights of stairs at Dayal Singh College where he teaches Hindi.
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| INDIA
, 13-April-2007
1:50:5 AM |
| Three per cent faculty seats in Delhi University were reserved under the disability quota but only 30 of the 300 posts in this category were filled.
The Delhi High Court has now said that there will be no new appointments till the empty seats in the disability quota are filled.
For five years Kedar Mandal navigates three flights of stairs at Dayal Singh College where he teaches Hindi.
Kedar is one of several teachers fighting a legal battle to ask for more jobs for faculty with special needs at Delhi University.
The case being heard in the High Court has resulted in 3 per cent reservation but Kedar believes that is not enough.
"I think reservations should be implemented. Lots of people do not know about the seats reserved for the community," said Kedar Mandal, Faculty member, Dayal Singh College.
But even the existing 3 per cent quota for special needs faculty has not been filled. This was a quota introduced six years ago by the Delhi High Court.
Kedar says that is hardly surprising as most colleges do not have ramps for wheelchairs.
"Facilities have to be increased. Not too many colleges have toilet facilities for people with special needs. In fact most colleges do not even have ramps for those on wheelchairs".
In an attempt to solve the crisis, the Delhi High court has banned Delhi University from hiring any professors for any subject till special-needs professors are hired for all the seats reserved for them.
"We need to fill the quota quickly because our students will suffer without permanent teachers. They will then have to be recruited on an ad hoc basis," said Dr Meera Ramachandran, Principal, Gargi College.
Systemic changes
Vikas, a political science teacher at Ramjas College, has a tough job because of the attitude on campus.
Vikas bought a laptop, which calls out notes for him, to help him in the class. But there are huge changes that the system has to make for him to be comfortable on campus.
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