This is an open letter to the Vice-chancellor of Bangalore University. I'd written this letter to the VC, but haven' received any response yet. Yet, I shall not give up.
Dear Sir,
I was a scribe for one of the blind candidates for the correspondence course II Year BA examination. Some of these sentences below describe the situation in the exam center, the tasks I had to do and what actions I took.
1. The exam center had no special arrangement for blind candidates. I had to run around the exam center with my candidate and serach for the location of the candidate's roll number. After a lot of huffing and puffing, I managed to locate the center. And then, all we get is a table and two chairs to sit in the corridor!! Pathetic is an understatement!!!
2. In the History question paper, there were map questions. How do you expect a blind candidate to 'dictate' the answer?
3. The course material distributed had nothing in it for blind candidates.
Some small steps that can be taken to make life easy for the visually impaired candidates:
1. Please arrange for a special room for the blind candidates.
2. Please have a look at the curricullum and make some small adjustments for the sake of visually challenged people - make it a fair playing ground.
3. As a whole, we in our society should be sensitive to these people. They don't need our sympathy, they need their own self-respect! And we can help them achieve that ..
2 comments:
man ... this is real bad. come to think of it, not many people know about the difficulties that the blind have to face in their day to day life. I for one, knew that there were schools etc. for the blind but never thought about the need for a scribe to help them write their exams. hmm .. I should look this up and see if I can be a scribe as well. before that, I should make sure that my handwriting is good!! haven't written exams for a really long time now.
It was actually a very interesting experience, Bigu. It would been a really good experience if only my candidate was a good and sincere person. She just wanted me to study and write whatever I knew. The invigilators also are so sympathetic that they don't bother to check on you. So I actually wrote the exam for her! Even now, she doesn't have the courtesy to call up and tell me the result. Because I plainly refused to write another exam for her. So, just like in the real world, there are good people and there are people who take you for a ride !
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