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“Visually challenged students will get extra time in exams”

CHENNAI: Visually challenged students are entitled to have a scribe or write their examination in Braille method, and for both categories they will get one hour extra time, the Madras High Court said on Wednesday.

The First Bench, comprising Chief Justice H.L. Gokhale and Justice F.M.Ibrahim Kalifulla, was disposing of a public interest litigation petition by the Tamil Nadu Handicapped Federation Charitable Trust, represented by its secretary-trustee P. Simmachandran, seeking to call for records relating to a phonogram circular of the Director of Government Examinations (DGE) and quash the same.

The Trust sought a direction to the DGE to issue instructions to all examination centres to give an additional hour along with the examination timings for all visually challenged persons appearing for the board examinations conducted by the Department of School Education, as per a G.O.

The Bench said one hour extra time, which was laid down in a G.O. of September 1993 of the Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme Department had been accepted by the DGE, and, therefore, that extra one hour would have to be given to the visually challenged.

The trust submitted that the DGE issued a controversial circular on March 3 this year, the day of commencement of Plus-Two board examinations by repealing and reversing the G.O.

In addition to the decision, the DGE also seemed to have communicated to the Chief Educational Officers in the State not to grant the one hour extra time to visually challenged students during the board examinations, the petitioner said.

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