A PIL was filed in the Delhi High Court today challenging the implementation of Delhi University's proposed four-year under-graduate programme with multiple degree in its present form.
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 NGO, which works for the welfare of differently-abled students, said when the recommendations for the curriculum of programme were made, the same were being considered in the meeting of DU's Academic Council(AC) and were approved by the Executive Council but the concerns of the persons with visual impairment were not taken into consideration by them.
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.
