Two days before the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts its Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) 2011,a visually impaired candidate moved the Delhi High Court with the help of a social group on Friday,contesting a special arrangement for visually challenged candidates that required them to produce an additional certificate of disability. Score Foundation and Prateek Jain,a candidate appearing for the CTET on Sunday,approached the court through their counsel,Pankaj Sinha,for quashing the advertisement issued by the CBSE on April 9. The advertisement had not mentioned any measures,such as providing visually challenged candidates with extra time to produce the certificate. Jain had subsequently made several communications with the CBSE and the latter finally came up with a notification this month,which read that the Board had made special arrangements to provide amanuensis,besides 30 minutes of additional time to visually impaired candidates in appropriate cases. It further stated: Such candidates have to make their request in writing to the centre superintendent concerned one day before the examination,between 9 am and 1 pm,and produce a disability certificate as confirmation of their impairment and need for a scribe. Otherwise,they should produce a certificate that the candidate is unable to write the examination as certified by a medical officer. The petition condemned this condition and dubbed as unfair that they had to bring a note from a doctor despite the fact that the candidates already possessed disability certificates. The petition has also sought direction for passing an adequate guideline regarding the scribes,extra time and other facilities for candidates with disabilities. The court is expected to take up the petition for hearing on Saturday.
