Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(a) Blindness – “Blindness” refers to a condition where a person suffers from any of the following
conditions, namely:
o total absence of sight;
o visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses;
or
o limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse.
(b) Low vision – “Low vision” means a person with impairment of visual functioning even after
treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for
the planning or execution of a tark with appropriate assistive device.
(c) Leprosy cured – “Leprosy cured” means any person who has been cured of leprosy but is suffering
from
o loss of sensation in hands or feet as well as loss of sensation and paresis in the eye and eye-lid
(d) Hearing impairment – “Hearing impairment” means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear
in the conversational range of frequencies.
(e) Locomotors disability – “Locomotors disability” means disability of the bones, joints or muscles
leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.
(g) Any other physical disability which is not covered above, but permanently suffering from 50% or
above, as the case may be, submit an application for consideration on case to case basis.
A differently abled student has to submit a certificate of suffering from disability, certified by a
physician/ surgeon/ oculist working in a Government hospital, as the case may be.
Differently students, who are suffering from a disability as stated above, are eligible for full
exemption from payment of registration and tuition fees at IPCC and Final levels.
Differently abled Students, suffering from permanent disability of 50% or above are exempted from
attending Orientation Programme. These students are also exempted from payment of fee related to
Orientation Programme i.e. Orientation Programme registration fee of ` 1,000/- and course fee of
Rs. 3,000/- for undergoing course.
Differently abled students are exempted from payment of ITT fee
Differently abled students, suffering from permanent disability of 50% or above are exempted from
attending ITT classes, but they are required to self-study and pass two test papers specially designed
for the purpose. These students are also exempted from payment of fee related to ITT i.e.
registration
fee of ` 2,000/- and course fee of ` 4,000/- for undergoing course.