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Noble gesture by Mangalore varsity

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Helping hand: K.M. Kaveriappa, Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore University, inaugurating a function organised by the Dakshina Kannada and Udipi District Physically Handicapped Association in Mangalore on Sunday.

MANGALORE: Mangalore University will permit degree colleges affiliated to it to admit physically challenged students by creating additional seats before July 12, Vice-Chancellor K.M. Kaveriappa has said.

He was addressing physically challenged persons at the inauguration of the Mangalore-taluk level convention organised here on Sunday by the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi District Physically Handicapped Association.

Mr. Kaveriappa said that the university had extended the last date for admitting students for first-year degree courses in its affiliated colleges, to July 12. If all the seats of the different courses were full by that day and if physically challenged students failed to get admission, the university would permit colleges to admit them by creating additional seats.

But the university would not give any scope for misuse of this provision by making false claims, he said. On some occasions, the university had helped its physically challenged employees by giving priority in promotions. Such candidates had been given priority in recruitment too even though some posts were not reserved for them, he said.

Replying to a statement by V. Muralidhar Nayak, president of the association, the Vice-Chancellor said that the university would remind its affiliated colleges to adhere to reservation rules pertaining to physically challenged students in admissions for degree courses. The university had sent a circular to colleges in this regard, based on a Supreme Court order, he said.

Mr. Nayak said that no circular had been issued with regard to reservation rules to be followed while admitting physically challenged persons. Of the seats allotted for a course, five per cent should be reserved for such candidates, he said.

M. Shantharam Shetty, Vice-Chancellor, Nitte University, said that physically challenged persons needed opportunities and not sympathy.

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