Provide barrier free environment for differently-abled: AICTE

The All India Council for Technical Education has directed Engineering Colleges and other Technical Education institutions to provide the differently-abled students barrier free environment and special teaching programmes.
According to a report here, the AICTE had directed the institutions to provide the environment through a centre for disabled persons in universities, colleges and other educational centres.
"The move will make the students with disability learn lessons on par with their normal counterparts," the report said.
Presently, three per cent reservation was given for differently-abled persons in technical and professional courses. Students under this category may be having various problems including visual, hearing, orthopaedic dyslexia or learning disability, it said.

Such students could be helped by giving more time for writing examination and interpreters to write exams, it said.