Filing the PIL, Sambhavana, an NGO, through counsel Pankaj Sinha, said "if the four-year under-graduate programme with multiple degree is introduced in present form, the student with vision impairment will suffer irreparable loss as they shall not be able to participate in the main stream education system."
The petition is listed for hearing before the bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath.
DU is to implement the four-year under-graduate programme in next acdemic session in July this year.
The plea said "students with visual impairment are purely exempted from studying Science and Math's after class-VIII in same cases and after class-X in most of the cases. In case the existing approved programme is implemented, such students shall not be able to meet the requirements of the foundation course in the first year of the four-year under-graduate programme which contains a bouquet of 11 courses including Building Mathematical Ability and Science and Life mandatory.