Delhi University has set up dedicated centres to assist Persons with Disability (PwD) applicants in filling up the online registration forms for admission to undergraduate courses.
A team of trained volunteers, along with teachers and counsellors, will help the PwD applicants to ensure forms are filled correctly without any hassle and confusion.
The varsity has put up two centres at Equal Opportunity Cell in North Campus and Joint Dean Students' Welfare Office in South Campus till June 19 where officials will be available between 10 am and 5 pm to assist the applicants in filling online registration form, an official statement said.
The team of volunteers, however, is operating only in North Campus. A help desk will be set up in the South Campus on June 10 and 11 during DU's open days between 10 am and 1 pm, an official said.
This year, 423 applicants have registered under PwD category so far and more than 50 aspirants have taken assistance from the help desks put up by the varsity.
"We have anticipated every difficulty that might be faced by PwD applicants and have formed a team of volunteers to help them in filling their forms," Kishore Kumar Das, spokesperson of DU, said.
Along with the volunteers, an expert or a teacher has been assigned to these help desks.
"We are ready to provide any kind of assistance like pick-up and drop from the metro station if an aspirant requires it, depending on his/her condition," he added.
The centres are also providing wheel-chair facilities to the applicants in this category during the admission process.
The university has reserved three per cent of total seats in this category while declaring cut-offs for the same is under the jurisdiction of individual colleges.
The aspirants are required to submit a certificate of physical disability issued by the chief medical officer of a district/civil surgeon or any government hospital authorised to issue such certificates.
University colleges have also put up their own help desks in their campuses run by groups of volunteers and students' union members to address the queries of the applicants and to assist them in filling up the registration forms.
